The elderly, fanatically religious servant at Wuthering Heights who survives through all the family changes. He represents rigid religious hypocrisy and the persistence of the old order despite all upheavals.
Physical: Very old but hale and sinewy, elderly man with lantern jaws, wears sanctimonious and sour expression, smokes black pipe, speaks in heavy Yorkshire dialect.
Personality: Religious zealot, self-righteous Pharisee, harsh toward children, speaks in dialect, contemptuous, rude, deaf or deliberately ignoring, moralistic but crude.
Background: Long-term servant at Wuthering Heights who serves through multiple generations. Gains influence over the weakening Mr. Earnshaw, survives all the family changes and conflicts.
Represents the unchanging, bigoted old order that persists through all the passionate changes around him. His survival emphasizes the continuity of place despite human upheaval.