The elegant, refined home of the Linton family, larger and more comfortable than Wuthering Heights. Features a library, drawing-room with crimson carpet and furniture, parlour with windows overlooking gardens, and multiple bedrooms. Surrounded by a park with formal walking paths, buried in trees, representing civilization and culture.
Significance
Represents civilization, culture, and social refinement in contrast to Wuthering Heights' primitive wildness. The civilized world that Catherine Earnshaw enters through marriage, and later becomes the inheritance battleground for the next generation.
One Sunday evening after Hindley's returnflashback: Catherine and Heathcliff spy on Thrushcross Grange; Catherine is bitten by Skulker and stays five weeks with the Lintons
Three years after Catherine's illnessflashback: Catherine marries Edgar Linton; Ellen moves to Thrushcross Grange
September evening, three years after disappearanceflashback: Heathcliff returns after three-year absence, transformed into a gentleman
Following Heathcliff's returnflashback: Isabella Linton becomes infatuated with Heathcliff despite warnings
Following the growing tensionsflashback: Confrontation between Edgar and Heathcliff; Catherine locks herself in her room for three days
Fourth day of Catherine's confinementflashback: Catherine's mental breakdown; Isabella elopes with Heathcliff
Sunday during church serviceflashback: Final meeting between Catherine and Heathcliff in Catherine's room
Around 2 AM, shortly after final meeting with Heathcliffflashback: Catherine gives birth to daughter Catherine and dies
When Catherine is sixteen, Linton is nearly sixteenflashback: Isabella dies; Linton Heathcliff comes to live with Edgar at Thrushcross Grange
Five days after imprisonmentflashback: Catherine escapes and reaches Edgar just before his death
Dawn after Catherine's escapeflashback: Edgar Linton dies; Heathcliff claims Catherine as his daughter-in-law
September 1802: Lockwood returns to find Catherine and Hareton in love; learns of Heathcliff's death