Actions: Work Building structure
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accident
- Architect
- Banking
- Barbering
- Blacksmith
- Boot-black / Shoe shine
- Carpenter
- Chopping wood
- Churning butter
- Construction
- Dismissal
- Dismissing from work
- Doctor / medical care
- Driving
- Factory
- Farming
- Fireman
- For room and board
- Gardening
- Getting water
- Glassblowing
- Government
- Horse training
- Hotel employee
- House painter
- Janitor
- Jeweler
- Landscaping
- Law enforcement
- Lawyering
- Leaving work
- Livery stable
- Losing job
- Maritime / Marine
- Mechanic
- Milling
- Miners / mining
- Missing work
- Night watchman
- Office
- Painting|Drawing
- Performance
- Photography
- Postal worker
- Prosecuting
- Quitting job
- Railroad workers
- Restauranteer
- Sawmilling
- Sharpening
- Sowing
- Store clerk
- Tailor
- Teaching
- To pay for education
- Traveling salesman
- Waiter
- Waitress
- Washing clothes
- Weaving
- Yard work
Tagged Events
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Emotional›Exhaustion | Work›Building structure
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Environment: Natural
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Migration
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mosquitoes | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Work›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation | Character›Artist | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Work›Building structure
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Work›Building structure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Progress›Gentrification
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mount Vernon
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Movement›Truck | Work›Building structure
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure