Structure 'Wuthering Heights'

Some versions of 'Wuthering Heights' are split into two volumes that act as stories told one after the other.
The first volume is about Catherine Earnshaw's relationship with Heathcliff and Edgar Linton.
The second volume traces the course of Catherine Linton's relationship with her two cousins, Linton Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw.
It has long been recognised that the stories have much in common and this is usually attributed to 'repetition', a view which emphasises the choronolgical sequence of events.
Critics have always been more interested in volume one involving the Cathy-Heathcliff plot, not only because it is more vivid, but also because it is also considered that the events in volume one determine the events in volume 2.
There is also a parallel between the two families the Linton's and the Earnshaw's who both have 1 daughter and 1 son
Multi-layered narration, each indivdual narration opening out from its parent to reveal a new level of the story. This helps the story seem continuous despite the huge shifts in time.
There is a framed…

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