The Frame Narrative

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Bronte's nested narration—Lockwood recording Nelly Dean's account—creates ironic distance and raises questions about narrative reliability.
Chapter 4

Lockwood asks Nelly to tell him the history; she begins: 'Before I came to live here... I was almost always at Wuthering Heights.'

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Chapter 7

Nelly interrupts her narrative; Lockwood comments on her unusual eloquence for a servant, prompting questions about her reliability.

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