Abstract
The passage, being at the very end of the novel, follows directly Heathcliff's death and stages the final events of Wuthering Heights. Prior to it, Nelly Dean gives her brief account of Heathcliff's death and funeral. Then, we are presented with her conversation with Lockwood who, in turn, puts an end to the story. Starting with Lockwood's narrative, which integrates that of Ellen Dean and extends over the more or less short narratives of five other characters, "mirroring" its beginning, the story comes to its end. The text of the final paragraphs can be taken as emblematic of the reader's relation to the whole story in the sense that the interpretation of the events depends entirely on the individual discernment of every reader. The ending of the novel poses many a problem for the reader. Unequivocal interpretation of it, and of the whole text for that matter, is not possible.
