Actions: Work Construction
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accident
- Architect
- Banking
- Barbering
- Blacksmith
- Boot-black / Shoe shine
- Building structure
- Carpenter
- Chopping wood
- Churning butter
- Dismissal
- Dismissing from work
- Doctor / medical care
- Driving
- Factory
- Farming
- Fireman
- For room and board
- Gardening
- Getting water
- Glassblowing
- Government
- Horse training
- Hotel employee
- House painter
- Janitor
- Jeweler
- Landscaping
- Law enforcement
- Lawyering
- Leaving work
- Livery stable
- Losing job
- Maritime / Marine
- Mechanic
- Milling
- Miners / mining
- Missing work
- Night watchman
- Office
- Painting|Drawing
- Performance
- Photography
- Postal worker
- Prosecuting
- Quitting job
- Railroad workers
- Restauranteer
- Sawmilling
- Sharpening
- Sowing
- Store clerk
- Tailor
- Teaching
- To pay for education
- Traveling salesman
- Waiter
- Waitress
- Washing clothes
- Weaving
- Yard work
Tagged Events
Actions: Work›Construction
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools | Time›Being late / tardiness
Actions: Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools | Time›Being late / tardiness
Actions: Economic›Barter | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Government›Depression-era programs | Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Work›Construction
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Work›Construction
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Riding | Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Play›Gambling | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Birthright | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Consumption | Economy›Gambling | Identity, Personal›Background | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Character›Opportunism | Character›Recklessness | Determinism›Vs human agency | Money›As motive | Money›Ill-gotten | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Olfactory›Sulfur
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Riding | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Sitting | Work›Architect | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Art›Painting | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Ax | Objects›Shovel | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Description›Character portrait | Description›Stage direction | Description›Tableau | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Hamsa | Tone›Overwrought
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Frost
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Construction | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Ethnicity›Scottish / Scots | Race›Black stereotype
Actions: Work›Construction
Themes and Motifs: Money
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Progress›Gentrification
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mount Vernon
Environment: Domestic Space›Carriage house
Actions: Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations