Rooms in Wuthering Heights.

One striking aspect of Wuthering Heights is the use of rooms as settings for, or backgrounds to, most of the actions or situations described by its various narrators. Thus, as well as being made aware of the social difference between the two principal domiciles through references to particular rooms and buildings, we note, for example, the thematic role played by the oak-panelled closet at the Heights and by the drawing room at the Grange, just as we see frequent mention of chambers or bedrooms, usually with ominous implications. The rooms most often referred to, however, are the Heights sitting room and parlour, the Grange library and parlour, and, above all, the kitchen, which, though the humblest room in both households, is undoubtedly the most interesting for being the space in which all kinds of human behaviour, ranging from the near tragic to the utterly comical, take place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]