What is Chapter 3 about? A summary.

• Zillah leads Mr. Lockwood upstairs, urging him to be quiet, because Mr. Heathcliff does not like to let guests stay in this room.

• The window ledge in the room holds several books, and names are etched in the wood: Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton.

• Mr. Lockwood begins to read the books that are Catherine’s, which describe the cruelty of Hindley, Catherine's older brother.

• Frances, Hindley's wife, joins in the tyranny.

• Catherine writes to complain that Heathcliff has been reduced to a servant, and forbidden from playing with her.

• Mr. Lockwood starts to doze and in his dream he and Joseph are walking to a chapel to hear Jabes Branderham preach a sermon.

• During the sermon, the preacher orders the congregation to punish Mr. Lockwood, and they begin to attack him with their pilgrim sticks.

• Mr. Lockwood awakens to the tapping of a fir tree at the window.

• When Mr. Lockwood reaches to loosen the branch, a woman's hand grabs his.

• Mr. Heathcliff yells at the maid for putting Mr. Lockwood in this room and stays to wait for the ghost to return.

• Eventually, Mr. Lockwood makes his way home in the snow.