Wuthering Heights Setting Symbolism In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses the setting of the English Moors, a setting she is familiar with, to place two manors, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. This 19th century setting allows the reader to see the destructive nature of love when one loves the wrong person. The manor Wuthering Heights is described as dark and demonic. In the English moors, winter lasted three times as long as summer and the Heights and the land adjacent to it can be compared to winter, while Thrushcross Grange can be described as the summer. Bronte describes the Heights as a “misanthropist’s Heaven.” Its gate is always chained from the outside and its inhabitants on the inside are as unappealing as the house itself. Wuthering Heights produces Heathcliff, the protagonist of the story, and his “siblings”, Catherine and Hindley. The setting shapes the story because it jumps back and forth from setting to setting which keeps the readers wondering what’s going to happen next. Different things take place at different settings which makes the story have more suspense. Some things that happen at the grange is in the drawing room where the young Heathcliff and Catherine first see the Lintons which has crimson carpets, chairs and tables, a white ceiling bordered with gold, and glass-droplet chandeliers. There is also the hall, the library (which may be another name for the parlour), Edgar and Catherine's bedroom, Isabella's room, Ellen's room. Upstairs, there is a study with a fire (which is used by Lockwood) as well as the main bedrooms used by the family in residence. When Lockwood says, “But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at.” (Bronte. 50) This is where the run away to the grange also known as the moor. This shows one thing that happens at the grange. There are multiple different settings in this story which makes it more interesting.