Why Does Mr Lockwood Go To Wuthering Heights What Role Does He Play In The Novel?

Emily Bronte’s novel starts with Mr. Lockwood who Lockwood decided to settle for a while in the countryside, feeling an urgent need to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the London world and fashionable resorts. He chose the old manor house, Starling Grange, in the rolling moorlands and marshes of northern England, as the place of his self-imposed retreat.
Having settled in a new place, Mr. Lockwood decides to visit his only neighbor, Squire Heathcliff, who lived about four miles away, at the estate called Wuthering Heights. The host and his dwelling made a somewhat strange impression on the guest: a gentleman in dress and manners, Heathcliff's appearance was a pure gypsy; his house looked more like the harsh dwelling of a simple farmer than the estate of a landowner. In addition to the master, the grumbling old servant Joseph lived on Wuthering Heights; young, charming, but somehow excessively harsh and full of undisguised contempt for everyone, Katherine Heathcliff, daughter-in-law of the owner; and Hareton Earnshaw (this name Lockwood saw engraved next to the date "1500" above the entrance to the estate) - a rustic-looking fellow, a little older than Catherine, looking at whom one could say with certainty only that he was neither a servant nor a master here. Intrigued, Mr. Lockwood asked the housekeeper, Mrs. Dean, to satisfy his curiosity and tell the story of the strange people who lived on Wuthering Heights.
Starting from here, the main events of the story begin. Mr. Lockwood plays the major role in the novel as he is the main narrator, who tells the reader about the dramatic events that made up the history of the Earnshaw and Linton families and their evil genius, Heathcliff.