Wuthering Heights 5

"Before I came to live here...I was almost always at Wuthering Heights." -pg. 29

Mrs. Dean, the narrator of the inner story, gives the reader information through anechdotes. In contrast, Lockwood gives us information through his thoughts and feelings. This change in narrator gives the reader more insight into the events of the story. Mrs. Dean's anechdotes are the primary source we get information about the past from. This change of narrator also represents a change in setting. Lockwood narrates in 1801, which is the present. Mrs. Dean's stories are set in the mid 1970's to the present. This is why Mrs. Dean's anechdotes are so important--they give the reader information about the past that we would not currently know without them.