Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte (Pseudonym: Ellis Bell)
The novel begins with the narration of Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant of Wuthering Heights who declares his recently-acquired dwelling a "misanthropist's Heaven." It is not long until the reader learns of Lockwood's ambiguously unrequited love affair. Lockwood once loved a woman, but ultimately, the romance behaved as sort of a direct exchange--as soon as Lockwood's beloved expressed similar interest in him, our narrator immediately recoils and his love vanishes. Seeing as Lockwood is the lens through which we read this gloomy love story, his romantic past should be of particular interest to us. He is a man who has no qualms with the disruption of love and is quite comfortable with being an "irritant."
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