Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Open secret
Description
Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Actions: Domestic›Sewing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Handmade
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Narrative›Communal narrative
Actions: Economic›Barter | Mental›Misunderstanding
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Trembling | Moral›Fraud | Moral›Judgmental | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Food›Race | Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Smith, Al | Narrative›Parentheses