She seems to criticize both characters (namely Heathcliff and Catherine) in the same way throughout her account of their lives. Although Nelly is not the sole narrator of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood also narrates part of Catherine's life through reading her journals that he found after his stay in Wuthering Heights. With time represented as a cycle, Emily Brontë tells the stories of Catherine and Heathcliff. lives in a cycle. The narrator, Nelly, tells each character stories about different times in their lives, jumping from one month to the next some time later, instead of having a constant flow of events. Through this, we focus on the most important events in each character's life, the events that are significant to the plot and the development that each character goes through. Time in this story is structured in two different ways, at certain points it can be considered a "present story", which tells what is happening in the present time, and a "past story", which is told by several characters in the text to tell what happened in the present time.