When Mr. Lockwood came to Wuthering heights he was given Catherine’s room to sleep in. He awakens from a violent dream because he sees a ghost, of a young girl who called herself Catherine Linton. She tried to come inside, but Mr. Lockwood wouldn’t let her in, even when she explains that she has been wandering for twenty years. It had about been twenty years ago that Catherine Linton died, and Heathcliff had begged her to haunt him until he died. Heathcliff states that he’ll hold Catherine again, even when she is cold. The reader meets Catherine’s ghost in the beginning because it symbolizes the start of her life. It helps the reader understand why Heathcliff begs for Catherine’s ghost to haunt him. Heathcliff begins believing