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Soon, Nelly finds him dead. She tells Lockwood that he has since been buried, and that young Cathy and Hareton shall soon marry. They will wed on New Year’s Day and move to Thrushcross Grange.
The character of Lockwood functions primarily as an outsider who gradually learns the story of the Linton and Earnshaw families, allowing the reader to do the same. Lockwood is a visitor from London and is unfamiliar with Yorkshire customs.
Lockwood becomes sick after his traumatic experience at Wuthering Heights, and—as he writes in his diary—spends four weeks in misery. Heathcliff pays him a visit, and afterward Lockwood summons Nelly Dean and demands to know the rest of her story.
Lockwood fights her and frees himself. She continues to beg, and he cries out. His yell carries into the real world— Heathcliff hears it and comes running. He's upset to find Lockwood in the room, while Lockwood's upset over the ghost.
Heathcliff has been dead for three months. Ellen tells Lockwood what has happened in his absence. A fortnight after Lockwood left the Grange the previous spring, Nelly was summoned to Wuthering Heights, where she gladly went, hoping to keep Cathy out of Heathcliff's way.
Brutal treatment or quick thinking? Either way, Lockwood seems to be no stranger to violence. He will spend the remainder of the novel trying to comprehend what this scene says about the inhabitants (dead and alive) of Wuthering Heights—and yet he never refers to it again.
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Heathcliff explains that his son, like his wife, is dead. After they eat, Lockwood declares once more that he needs a guide to help him find his way home.
