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
- Longshoreman
- 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
- Shodding
- 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: Mental›Calculation | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Riding | Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Play›Gambling | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Birthright | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Consumption | Economy›Gambling | Identity, Personal›Background | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Character›Opportunism | Character›Recklessness | Determinism›Vs human agency | Money›As motive | Money›Ill-gotten | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Domestic›Camping | Domestic›Cooking | Economic›Paying | Mental›Discovery | Mental›Learning | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Migration | Nationality›French
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Lacking | Objects›Fire | Time›Duration of time | Values›Determination | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Martinique | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Mud | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Language barriers | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Building structure | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Group Mentality›Community collective | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Alligators | Animals›Dogs | Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Local legends | Objects›Bricks | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Mud | Place›Plantation | Time of Day›Sunrise | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Summer | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Exhaustion | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mosquitoes | Character›Work ethic | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost | Values›Determination
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Hurried | Mental›Believing | Mental›Envisioning | Work›Architect | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Pretension | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Nationality›Foreigners
Themes and Motifs: Art›Artistic creation | Chaos/Order›Creation | Character›Artist | Character›Hubris | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Home›Dwelling | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Time›Duration of time
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Description›Grotesque | Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Rural | 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›All-male space | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Separate spaces | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Riding | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Widow | Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal ownership | Law›Property | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Retribution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Local legends | Death›Future | Death›Spousal | Determinism›Fated | Home›New home | Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Collective memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Past | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Figures of Speech›Breath | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Origin | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
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
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Football | Progress›Infrastructure
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