Wuthering Heights

A short one today, on Emily Brontë's Victorian novel Wuthering Heights. A high school classic notorious for bringing girls to tears of sympathy and boys to tears of boredom, the book was the subject of a tenth-grade pop quiz, and the fellow who submitted this entry fared rather poorly. The crucial line is his answer for question #4; when prompted to explain the significance of Gimmerton (the home village of the local doctor Kenneth), he replies, "Gimmerton was the name of the town that the normal people lived in?" I guess, sometimes, it takes a child to point out what we knew all along but never wanted to say...