This quote can be used to describe the main residence of Wuthering Heights, where it is dark, gloomy, and often scary. This setting can be suspense-inducing.

Frame narrative is used continuously throughout Wuthering Heights by Nelly the maid to recall the main love story of Heathcliff and Catherine, and their ultimate fates, to the new tenant Mr. Lockwood. The frame narrative gives Mr. Lockwood detailed information as to why Heathcliff acts cold and closed off towards him and the other members of Wuthering Heights, Cathy Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. Frame narrative is an important factor as it connects the story as a whole, filling in the missing pieces of Wuthering Heights Mr. Lockwood was previously there to witness.

In Wuthering Heights, Lockwood experiences a dream that relates to mystery and suspense as well as supernatural ideas. In the dream Lockwood tries to open the window and as he does, he breaks the glass, and later finds the cold hands of Catherine Linton grasping on to him. Catherine then begs to be let in stating she had been waiting for many years. This foreshadows the deep and complex relationship between Catherine Linton and Heathcliff existing at Wuthering Heights.

The "story within a story" structure was used in Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte used this device to contextualize Lockwood in the previous tenants of his new manor, Thrushcross Grange. When he wanders into Wuthering Heights uninvited, Nelly informs him of the story of Heathcliff, Catherine, and everyone in between. Lockwood serves as a frame, serving reason as to why the main story is being told. The majority of the novel is actually Nelly's storytelling of the Earnshaw and Linton families to Lockwood.

In Wuthering Heights, Lockwood arrives at Wuthering Heights twenty-five years after the "secondary narrative"-- Heathcliff's strife with the Earnshaws and Lintons. When Lockwood becomes ill, Nelly takes over as the story's "secondary narrator", as she details the extensive history of Wuthering Heights.

This element of a Gothic Novel, where a powerful, tyrannical male demands a female character to do something intolerable is displayed in Wuthering Heights whenever Heathcliff coerces Catherine Linton to marry his son, Linton Heathcliff, so that he is entitled to her estate. Catherine makes it clear through her distress that she does not want to do this, but he imposes his control over her by locking her up in Wuthering Heights until she agrees.

In the novel Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood experiences an eerie dream about the passed Catherine Earnshaw begging to be let in through the bedroom window. In his dream, he describes her as a ghostly figure that grabbed his hand from the window seal. This dream that occurred early on in the novel was a foreshadowing of the tragic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine. Catherine's reaching through the window symbolizes the distance her and Heathcliff maintained between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange with the window as their separation. Her ghostly appearance in Lockwood's dream foreshadowed her death before ever being happily in love with Heathcliff and how they can never be with each other again.

Towards the end of the novel, Heathcliff tricks young Cathy to visit Wuthering heights by taking advantage of her relationship with Linton. Once she arrives with Nelly, he locks them in a room until she unwillingly marries his son. It is Heathcliff's way to gain control and power not only over Catherine's home, but also over the one thing she left in the world.

In Wuthering Heights, many of the characters in the story experience extreme emotions. For example, Heathcliff's love for Catherine and his anger toward Hindley Earnshaw and Edgar Linton are so extreme that it drives him spend his life slowly taking revenge on them and their families and waiting in agony for death, so he can be reunited with Catherine. There are also many scenes of high, dramatic emotions throughout the story like when Edgar and Healthcliff argue in the kitchen after Catherine locked them in there together, and Catherine is so distressed that she locks herself in her room and doesn't eat to the point that it makes her sick. Another example is when Healthcliff is returning late one night after Hindley had been drinking. Hindley had locked Heathcliff out of the house and was threatening to shoot him upon entry. Out of anger, Heathcliff made it in the door and attacked Hindley, while Isabella Heathcliff stood there distressed. High and overwrought emotions are a common theme throughout the novel Wuthering Heights.

This element is present in Wuthering Heights when Lockwood has a disturbing dream of Catherine while staying at the mansion. In the dream, the ghost of Catherine desperately tries to gain entrance into the home but cannot, causing Lockwood great distress. This mysterious and alarming encounter with Catherine's ghost sets the tone for the destruction that Lockwood will later learn was Heathcliff and Catherine's tumultuous relationship.

In Wuthering Heights, this technique is used all throughout the novel through Nelly. Nelly is the servant to both the Earnshaw and Linton families. On the night that Lockwood arrives to the Earnshaw mansion, Nelly uses "secondary narrative" to retell the story of Wuthering Heights with immense details.

An example of this connection between a frame narrative and the inner story in Wuthering Heights would be Nelly Dean. By being the source of Mr. Longwood's story and a central player in the events she describes, Mrs. Dean serves as a cohesive character throughout both narratives. At the conclusion of the novel, Mrs. Dean is especially important as she is returned to her role at Wuthering Heights before settling with another Catherine Earnshaw at Thrushcross Grange. This not only gives Nelly's character a poetically just ending but also gives the story a more tied-off ending in that Longwood is able to see the new inhabitants of Wuthering Heights through her lens for a final time before leaving the moors for good.

In Wuthering Heights, one main narrator is the servant, Nelly. Nelly is explaining to Mr. Lockwood the events that have happened in the past with the other characters like Catherine, Heathcliff, and Edgar. This exemplifies the framing device of retelling the story and adds complexity to the novel by allowing for a unique dual narration. Nelly would be considered the frame narrator. By explaining the past events, Nelly reveals backstory information to Mr. Lockwood and the reader that we were missing at the beginning of the book.

In Wuthering Heights, this can be seen throughout the novel, specifically when Catherine becomes hysterical while being sick when Heathcliff was trying to talk to her. She began screaming at him and claiming that he is causing her to die. Edgar also asked her to choose between him and Heathcliff and she started acting like she was being possessed and acting crazy. Catherine was often seen acting out against the people around her and this was accounted by Nelly as normal occurrences that could be overlooked because it happened so often.

Wuthering Heights incorporates this gothic element by setting the book in two old mansions, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In the book, Mr. Lockwood describes Heathcliff's mansion saying, "Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge. The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade. In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses." The villainous old guns and pistols create a dark and eerie type of atmosphere which is a crucial element to a gothic novel.