Wuthering heights is presented as an isolated and inhospitable place find evidence to support this answer

From the text, we can see Wuthering Heights is large and it is easy to find a place to withdraw in complete privacy. None-the-less, the residents of the home are also describes as inmates.... which leads us to infer their home is like a prison.

But the house of Wuthering Heights is so large that the inmates have plenty of space for withdrawing out of its influence; and accordingly what inmates there were had stationed themselves not far from one of the windows.