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Wuthering Heights HELP

What is the effect of the meta narrative? Why is it effective that the novel starts and ends with Mr. Lockwood? What is the effect of the unreliability of Nelly Dean telling this story? Please help! :s-smilie:
(edited 10 years ago)
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The meta narrative has the effect of making Cathy and Heathcliff's story seem less ryent and immediate, because not only are we hearing of their story from a narrative of a narrative, but the story is presented as just that- a story to pass the time. Also, Nelly was not invested like Cathy and Heathcliff, so her story focuses more on how she saw it, from a moral and rather unsympathetic standpoint, and in the same way her account of the young Catherine is coloured by her love of the girl, as later noted by Lowood.
Having Lowood begin the narrative makes us eager to learn more about these strange people, while bringing the narrative back allows us to see the events as they transpire in real time. In this way a sense of urgency is established at both ends.
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Thank you so much, that was great!

Can anyone give me a good quote please about Nelly Dean narrating the story?
(edited 10 years ago)
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