What feeling is portrayed in the first few chapters of Wuthering Heights?

The first few chapters of the novel detail Mr. Lockwood's initial impressions of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. Lockwood is staying in Thrushcross Grange, a nearby manor that is also owned by the master of Wuthering Heights. Mr. Lockwood visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, shortly after arriving at Thrushcross Grange. Lockwood is immediately put off by Heathcliff's surly demeanour. Rather than greet his tenant in a polite and customary way, Heathcliff is rude and distrusting toward Lockwood, placing him in a room filled with snarling hound dogs.
On an afternoon shortly after, Lockwood pays another visit to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is not at home, and Mr. Lockwood finds a young woman sitting by the fire. He assumes this is Heathcliff's wife and attempts to make polite conversation, but she is excessively rude and refuses to engage with him. Heathcliff arrives and clarifies that the woman is his daughter-in-law. With his second visit nearly as off-putting as the first, Lockwood departs for the Grange in a snow storm. Heathcliff's servant Joseph sees the lantern that Lockwood is holding and assumes that he means to steal it. Joseph orders Heathcliff's hounds to chase Lockwood down. Lockwood ends up pinned to the ground by the dogs and angrily curses the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. Lockwood is forced to stay the night at the house, as it would be too difficult to find his way back to the Grange in the storm.
Lockwood's initial impressions of those who live at Wuthering Heights leave him feeling offended and indignant. His negative experiences in the first two chapters set the Gothic tone of the novel. Heathcliff has a characteristically dark mood and aggressive behaviour, which mirrors the wild and rugged landscape of the moors surrounding Wuthering Heights. The subsequent story of Cathy and Heathcliff is filled with doom and gloom, surrounding the romance that could never be and Cathy's untimely death. Similarly, the second part of the novel revolves around Heathcliff's daughter-in-law Catherine Linton, who is miserable about being trapped in Wuthering Heights.