Wuthering Heights has two speakers that form the plot structure of a story within a story. Lockwood plays the main role in the narrative frame, he provides us with a brief summary of his meeting with Heathcliff and his very strange family. They live in the north of England in total isolation. Nelly Dean's role is to inform us of events happening in the inner story. He tells Lockwood the story of the two families of the last two generations. He examines the events in retrospect and reports them to Lockwood so he can document his thoughts in his journal. The first voice the reader hears is Lockwood's. He rents Thrushcross Grange as a caretaker, meets Heathcliff and his bewildering family, and, out of curiosity, asks Nelly for information. At this point in the novel it is a single layer as Lockwood is the sole narrator. More layers come into play as Nelly begins to inform Lockwood of the history of the two families. Now Nelly tells Lockwood and then Lockwood tells us, this gives the narrative a double filter and that double filter is present through...