What impression does Lockwood get of Wuthering Heights and its inhabitants when he leaves for home for the second time? chapter 2

In chapter 2 of Emily Bronte's Wuthering
Heightswe find Lockwood in a very awkward situation. He enters Wuthering
Heights and, from the moment he goes inside, he sees some of the weirdest relationships
and behaviors that he has yet to see in his life.

The first
thing that strikes Lockwood is the treatment that he is given: Nobody cares about the
fact that he has just come inside from a snow storm, that he is cold, that he needs
lodging, nor that he should be treated at least with some respect as a guest. This is
what would have been typically expected of hosts during Victorian
England.

However, he gets the exact opposite: He is let in
with disdain, ignored for the most part, and openly able to take a part inside the
family drama and dysfunctional structure.

First, he meets a
disheveled young man who constantly argues with a beautiful fair-haired woman. She, in
turns glances at Lockwood with anger and contempt. Things are obviously not well between
the two young persons.

Right after he is quite mistreated
by them, in comes the scary and powerful person of Heathcliff. Heathcliff is the most
hateful of them all. He treats both Cathy and Hareton (which are the names of the young
woman and the messy-looking young man) as servants. However, Lockwood can tell that they
cannot be servants because they sit at table with Heathcliff. As Lockwood inquires
about everyone's identity he receives more and more ugly remarks. In the end, he
realizes that Cathy is Heathcliff's daughter-in-law, that her former husband is now dead
(Heathcliff's son), and that Heathcliff seems to hate
her.

In a similar note, Hareton Earnshaw is also treated
like a butler and Heathcliff makes a clear note that Hareton is not his son. This is
indicative that Heathcliff also thinks very lowly of
Hareton.

In all, Lockwood witnesses a very dysfunctional
family whose members hate each other, and who live under the same roof, eat at the same
table, and share lodgings for whatever mysterious
reason.

It is understandable that Lockwood absolutely
leaves with a horrid impression of these people and vows never to return to Wuthering
Heights again.