Read the excerpt. In this excerpt the narrator has just rented a home in an isolated area. He has been stranded by a sudden snowstorm at Wuthering Heights, the
home of his landlord, Heathcliff. Heathcliff's housekeeper is showing the narrator to the room where he will sleep.
from Wuthering Heights
While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion
about the chamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly. I asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had
only lived there a year or two; and they had so many queer goings on, she could not begin to be curious
The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner, and it was covered with writing scratched on the
paint. This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small-Catherine Earnshaw, here and there
Which statement best explains how setting contributes to plot development in this passage?
O 1: The dim bedroom provides a place where the narrator can escape from his troubles.
O 2. The burnt book implies that Catherine and Heathcliff pose a great danger to the narrator.
O 3. The forbidden chamber forces the housekeeper and Heathcliff to keep secrets from the narrator.
04. The eerie writing on the ledge suggests a mysterious connection between Catherine and Heathcliff.