The Unvanquished, 225 (Event)

Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Thu, 2017-01-05 13:36
Text: 
The Unvanquished
Location: 
Jefferson Railroad Station in The Unvanquished (Location)
Page Number: 
225
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
and last summer the first train ran into Jefferson
Page Event Ends: 
226
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Uncle Buck McCaslin
Ben Redmond
Colonel John Sartoris
Unnamed Jefferson Girls
Unnamed Musicians
George Wyatt
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Saturday, June 1, 1872 to Wednesday, July 31, 1872
Summary: 

Now free of Redmond as a business partner, John Sartoris finishes the railroad, and at the celebration of the first train into Jefferson, he again antagonizes Redmond in a speech with "a direct and absolutely needless allusion" to him; afterwards, George Wyatt intervenes with Bayard to try to get his father to stop antagonizing him, "to let Redmond alone" (226).

Chronological Order: 
271.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Partnership, Business, Competition, Enmity, Enemies, Disagreement, Intervention, Taunting, Railroad, Train, Celebration, Killing, Confederate Flag, Progress, Flowers
Environment:
Auditory›Train sound
Actions:
Economic›Investing | Movement›Train | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues:
Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Progress›Regional | Progress›Trains
Relationships:
Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics:
Diction›Rural vernacular

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