The Town, 371 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2018-06-28 15:10
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Jefferson Cemetery in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
371
Order within Page: 
3
First 8-10 words of event: 
So we went out to the cemetery and there
Page Event Ends: 
373
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
Charles (Chick) Mallison
V.K. Ratliff
Flem Snopes
Linda Snopes
Gavin Stevens
Unnamed Negro Driver(2)
Characters Mentioned: 
Eula Varner Snopes
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Wednesday, October 5, 1927 to Monday, October 31, 1927
Summary: 

At the cemetery Ratliff looks admiringly at the image of Eula in marble that Gavin and Linda made possible, and describes without comment the epitaph that Flem had inscribed under it. Flem leans out the window of his car and spits, then tells Linda "Now you can go" (373).

Chronological Order: 
332.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Art: Monument Art: Achievement Text: Epitaph cliched Time of year: Fall Leaving home Action: Spitting
Environment:
Place›Cemetery
Actions:
Bodily›Chewing | Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Satisfaction | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues:
Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Tie | Clothes›Veil
Themes and Motifs:
Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Objects›Luggage | Objects›Marble columns | Objects›Monument | Objects›Tobacco | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Texts›Epitaph
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Biblical›Bible verse on children | Figures of Speech›Fire | Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Eula's medallion unveiled

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