The Complete Isolation World
                         In Wuthering Heights
 
Examples:
1. "I came to a stone where the highway branches off on to the moor at your left hand; a rough sand-pillar, with the letters W.H. cut on its north side, on the east, G., and on the south-west, T.G. It serves as guide-post to the Grange, and Heights, and village." (chapter 11-page 92)

2. "I perceive that people in the regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things." (chapter 7-page 52-53)

Analysis:
     In Emily's whole life, the only places she favored to go are her home and moors.   Emily's  isolation and unsociability also affected her story.  The setting of the novel is limited to the two dwelling places, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, and the fields which lie around and between them. The nearby village of Gimmerton is a place to which people sometimes go, but the reader is not privileged to accompany them. The characters are limited to the members of the Earnshaw and Linton families and a small number of accessory personages.  There are practically no visitors to bring in even a slight stir from the outside world. Mr. Kenneth, the doctor, is also not a talkative fellow, as he would be in a Fielding novel, but a bare functionary.
 
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