The Town, 176 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2018-06-20 16:16
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Frenchman's Bend in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
176
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
(while he was just City Attorney he talked Harvard and
Page Event Ends: 
176
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
Gavin Stevens
Unnamed People of Yoknapatawpha
Characters Mentioned: 
Flem Snopes
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, June 1, 1923 to Friday, August 31, 1923
Summary: 

Parenthetically Charles describes Gavin Stevens' two vocabularies - the educated language he uses in town, and the vernacular he learned to speak during "that summer" he spent "travelling about the county running for County Attorney" (176).

Chronological Order: 
180.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Diction: Formal vs vernacular Politics: Campaigning
Actions:
Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect
Cultural Issues:
Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Education›Being well read / erudite | Politics›Election
Aesthetics:
Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses

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