The Town, 368 (Event)

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Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sun, 2018-03-18 20:48
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Courthouse and Square in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
368
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
So it was all fixed, and now all he needed
Page Event Ends: 
370
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
V.K. Ratliff
Gavin Stevens
Characters Mentioned: 
Eula Varner Snopes
Flem Snopes
Linda Snopes
Unnamed Italian Consul
Will Varner
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Thursday, April 14, 1927 to Monday, October 31, 1927
Summary: 

Ratliff describes the months after Eula's suicide as a period of waiting, while also noting Flem's increasing status: he buys a car, and enlarges the De Spain mansion with "extry big" columns "across the front" (369).

Chronological Order: 
325.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Waiting, Monument, Status, Regionalism: Plantation iconography
Environment:
Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions:
Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Waiting | Work›Lawyering
Cultural Issues:
Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype
Themes and Motifs:
Inheritance›Property | Objects›Car
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Geographical›Italy | Allusion, Historical›Grant, Ulysses S. | Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses

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