The Town, 152 (Event)

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Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sat, 2018-02-24 16:38
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Wallstreet Snopes's Grocery Store in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
152
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
Because I already knew about that: the non-Snopes son
Page Event Ends: 
155
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
Admiral Dewey Snopes
Mrs. Wallstreet Snopes
Wallstreet Panic Snopes
Unnamed Jefferson High School Principal
Unnamed School Teacher
Miss Vaiden Wyott
Characters Mentioned: 
Eck Snopes
Unnamed Fiance of Miss Wyott
Unnamed Grocery Store Owner
Wyott Family
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, September 1, 1916 to Monday, December 31, 1923
Summary: 

Gavin tells the story of Wallstreet Panic Snopes' determination to get an education, his hard work and success, and marriage to a "girl with an ambition equal to his" (154).

Chronological Order: 
110.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Marriage, Hard-Work, Ambition, Education, Education: Kindergarten, Allusion: Historical, Naming, Business, Progress: Ford
Environment:
Place›Playground | Public›School
Actions:
Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues:
Class›Ambition | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Suit | Education›Graduation | History›Civil War | Progress›Cars | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs:
Death›And inheritance | Money›Inheritance | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Nickname
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Lookout Mountain | Allusion, Literary›Gulliver's Travels | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses

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