Mr. Earnshaw returns from Liverpool with a homeless orphan boy he names Heathcliff, bringing him to live at Wuthering Heights.

Mr. Earnshaw dies at home; Hindley returns from university as master and immediately reduces Heathcliff to the status of a servant.

After a dog injures Catherine's foot at Thrushcross Grange, she stays five weeks recovering and returns home noticeably refined and changed.

Frances dies giving birth to Hareton; grief drives Hindley into alcoholism and increasingly brutal abuse of Heathcliff.

Heathcliff overhears Catherine tell Nelly she will marry Edgar Linton and disappears from Wuthering Heights without a word.

Catherine Earnshaw marries Edgar Linton, and Nelly moves with the new couple to Thrushcross Grange as their housekeeper.

Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights after three years away, transformed into a tall, wealthy, and commanding man.

Isabella Linton elopes with Heathcliff; when she writes to Edgar from Wuthering Heights, he refuses to see her.

Heathcliff sneaks into Thrushcross Grange and shares a final passionate and anguished embrace with the gravely ill Catherine.

Catherine gives birth to a premature daughter named Cathy and dies two hours later, leaving both Edgar and Heathcliff devastated.

Hindley dies drunk and in debt to Heathcliff, who inherits Wuthering Heights; Hareton Earnshaw is left with nothing.

Heathcliff demands custody of his sickly son Linton Heathcliff and forces the boy to leave Thrushcross Grange for Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff locks Cathy and Nelly inside Wuthering Heights and forces Cathy to marry the frail and dying Linton Heathcliff.

Edgar dies peacefully at Thrushcross Grange with Cathy at his side; Linton soon dies and leaves all property to Heathcliff.

Heathcliff is found dead in his room at Wuthering Heights; Hareton and Cathy announce their engagement and plan to leave for the Grange.

Wuthering Heights begins with the arrival of the orphan Heathcliff at the Earnshaw household, where his presence triggers immediate jealousy from the eldest son, Hindley. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Hindley assumes control and reduces Heathcliff to a servant, which inadvertently deepens the bond between Heathcliff and Catherine. Catherine chooses to marry the wealthy Edgar Linton, prompting Heathcliff to vanish for three years and return bent on revenge. He acquires Wuthering Heights through Hindley's ruin, and his manipulation eventually extends to trapping Cathy into a marriage with his own dying son to claim Thrushcross Grange. After Catherine's death haunts him for decades, Heathcliff finally loses his appetite for revenge upon seeing Catherine's eyes in the faces of the younger generation. He dies mysteriously, and Hareton and Cathy plan to move forward together, bringing the cycle of vengeance to a close.

The headline events of Heathcliff's rise, ruin, and revenge across two generations.

Young Hindley shoves Heathcliff under a horse's hooves; Nelly is struck by how calmly Heathcliff picks himself up and carries on.

Heathcliff and Catherine spy on the Linton children through the window at Thrushcross Grange before a dog catches Catherine by the foot.

On Christmas Day, Hindley publicly humiliates a cleaned-up Heathcliff in front of the Linton guests; Nelly later finds Heathcliff plotting revenge.

Edgar Linton visits Catherine at Wuthering Heights; she strikes him on the head, but the two confess they love each other before Hindley arrives.

A drunken Hindley drops infant Hareton from the top of the staircase; Heathcliff instinctively catches the falling child.

Catherine's fever spreads to both Mr. and Mrs. Linton during her convalescence at Thrushcross Grange, and both of them die from the illness.

Isabella Linton falls intensely in love with Heathcliff; Catherine responds by openly mocking her cousin's infatuation in front of him.

Nelly secretly observes Heathcliff embracing Isabella in the garden at Thrushcross Grange and immediately reports what she has seen to Catherine.

Catherine falls into a feverish delirium and believes she can see a light burning in her old bedroom window at Wuthering Heights across the moors.

Edgar receives a letter from Isabella describing Wuthering Heights as a horrifying place and questioning whether Heathcliff is even human.

Heathcliff visits Catherine's body in the drawing room of Thrushcross Grange and replaces Edgar's hair in her locket with a lock of his own.

Young Cathy secretly wanders beyond the grounds of Thrushcross Grange and arrives at Wuthering Heights, where she finds Hareton sitting by the hearth.

Edgar travels to London to collect twelve-year-old Linton Heathcliff after Isabella's death, intending to raise the boy at Thrushcross Grange.

Nelly discovers that Cathy has been secretly exchanging passionate letters with Linton Heathcliff and burns every one of them.

Hareton attempts to befriend Cathy at Wuthering Heights, but she cruelly mocks his illiteracy; their antagonism gradually begins to soften.

This pool traces the turbulent relationships and significant secondary events that shape life at both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. From childhood incidents of cruelty and the fateful night Catherine and Heathcliff spied on the Linton family, to Edgar's declaration of love and Hindley's drunken endangerment of his own infant son, these scenes reveal the household chaos that defines both properties. Isabella's infatuation with Heathcliff creates new tensions as Nelly watches him embrace her in secret and Catherine spirals into a frightening delirium. After Catherine's death, Heathcliff makes a private farewell at her coffin while Isabella flees and Hindley dies indebted. The second generation enters the story when young Cathy wanders to Wuthering Heights and Edgar retrieves the sickly Linton from London, setting Heathcliff's final scheme in motion. The pool closes with Hareton and Cathy's slow, difficult movement toward friendship, offering the first signs of hope in an otherwise turbulent narrative.

Significant scenes of passion, manipulation, and domestic chaos at both households.

Lockwood stays overnight at Wuthering Heights and has a terrifying nightmare in which Catherine's ghost claws at the bedroom window to enter.

Heathcliff rushes upstairs after hearing of Lockwood's nightmare, tears open the window lattice, and weeps while calling out for Catherine's ghost.

Young Heathcliff confides in Nelly that he wishes he had Edgar Linton's appearance and standing; Nelly encourages him with kind words.

Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights from Thrushcross Grange dressed in fine clothes, and the stark contrast with Heathcliff's rough state visibly humiliates him.

Catherine spends the night outdoors searching the storm for Heathcliff in cold, wet clothes, triggering a dangerous fever that nearly kills her.

Heathcliff exploits Hindley's alcoholism and reckless gambling to accumulate his debts and win legal ownership of Wuthering Heights.

Edgar confronts Catherine and demands she choose between him and Heathcliff; she responds by striking her own head repeatedly against a chair.

A servant announces to the Grange household that Isabella has secretly run away and eloped with Heathcliff, shocking everyone present.

Heathcliff begs Catherine's ghost to haunt him forever and throws himself violently against a tree outside Thrushcross Grange in grief.

Isabella arrives at Thrushcross Grange soaking wet and bleeding from a wound under her ear; she throws her wedding ring into the kitchen fire.

Heathcliff openly reveals to Nelly his plan to have Cathy and Linton marry so that Linton can inherit Thrushcross Grange on Edgar's death.

Linton Heathcliff confesses to Cathy that his father will have him killed if she refuses to remain at Wuthering Heights and marry him.

Heathcliff admits to Nelly that he dug up Catherine's coffin, revealing that his devotion to her has become an all-consuming spiritual obsession.

Heathcliff notices Catherine's eyes staring back at him from Hareton and Cathy's faces and confesses to Nelly that his will for revenge has vanished.

Heathcliff returns from a solitary nighttime walk looking inexplicably joyful; he soon stops eating, and Nelly finds him dead with a strange smile.

This pool highlights the moments of revelation and emotional rupture that most sharply alter the course of events across the novel. It begins with Lockwood's ghostly nightmare and Heathcliff's anguished response at the window, which immediately signals the depth of his obsession with Catherine and frames the entire narrative to follow. Earlier turning points then emerge: Heathcliff's childhood humiliation upon seeing Catherine return refined from Thrushcross Grange, his silent departure after overhearing her describe him as beneath her, and Catherine's desperate night vigil in the storm that triggers her illness. The middle of the pool covers the key deceptions and confrontations — Heathcliff seizing Wuthering Heights through Hindley's addiction, Edgar's ultimatum to Catherine, Isabella's flight, and Heathcliff's open admission of his scheme to claim Thrushcross Grange through his son. The pool closes with Heathcliff's spiritual unraveling, as he confesses to digging up Catherine's coffin, loses his will for revenge upon seeing her eyes in the younger generation, and dies in mysterious peace after a joyful nocturnal walk, suggesting he has at last found his way back to her.

Key revelations and decisive moments that drive the story's emotional and thematic arc.