Actions: Economic
Child Terms
- Accounting
- Ascent
- Asking for money
- Auction
- Banking
- Bankrupcy
- Bargaining
- Barter
- Blacksmithing
- Bootlegging
- Borrowing
- Bribing
- Buying
- Buying a house
- Buying a shop or store
- Buying on credit
- Buying timber
- Carpentry
- Child support
- Competition
- Delivery
- Earning Money
- Eviction
- Factory labor
- Frugality
- Getting a receipt
- Gifting
- Hiring / employing / offering a job
- Horse trading
- Impounding
- Indebtedness
- Insurance payment
- Investing
- Lending Money
- Offering to buy
- Offering to sell
- Partnership
- Paying
- Purchase
- Rationing
- Receiving money
- Renting
- Saving money
- Scamming
- Scheming
- Selling
- Selling a house or place
- Selling land
- Settling up
- Sex as payment
- Share-cropping|Tenantry
- Shopping
- Stock trading
- Store owner
- Taking without paying
- Trading
- Transactional
Tagged Events
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Unemployment
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Great Depression
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Gun | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race | Gender›Masculinity
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Interaction, Social›Competition
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Laid-by season
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Body | Law›Regulation | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Appearance›Complexion | Objects›Poison
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Flag
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes | Gender›Clothing | Group Mentality›Community collective
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | War›Aerial combat | War›Military awards | War›Women
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Amiens, France | Allusion, Historical›Cambrai
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Government›National authority | Government›Usurpation | Group Mentality›Political solidarity | History›Dispossessing Indians | History›Indian Removal | Identity, Cultural›National | Ritual›Dueling | War›Indian / Native American wars
Environment: Place›Indian agency
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Play›Gambling | Work›Government | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Government›US Bureau of Indian Affairs
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: History›Dispossessing Indians | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Banking | History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Environment: Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Social decline | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Wedding
Actions: Economic›Saving money | Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social decline | Education›Trade school | Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dysfunctional | Interracial›Master-servant
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed
Environment: Natural›Creek | Place›Country store | Public›Blacksmith
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Auction | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Whispering | Work›Blacksmith
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Story-telling
Actions: Economic›Impounding
Actions: Economic›Impounding | Verbal›Threat
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Relocation
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space | Place›Houses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Music | Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Musical instrument | Values›Success
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Character›Predatory
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Law›Warrant | Politics›City government
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fraud | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Alcohol›Abstinence | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Health and Illness›Smoking habit | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Environment: Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Aaahhhhhhh | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Limping | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Food›Gum | Law›Aviation | War›Veterans
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Stereotypical Jewish accent
Cultural Issues: Economy›Bargaining
Themes and Motifs: Money›Stingy with money
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Interpretation | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Deception | Physical›Sitting
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Conflict
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Ownership
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Saving money | Verbal›Badgering
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Embarrasment
Cultural Issues: Economy›Bargaining
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Disruption
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Character›Pride | Objects›Tobacco | Values›Honor
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Tone›Mock-heroic
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Embarrasment
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Wanting a drink
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Economic›Borrowing
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Race›Subverting a stereotype
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Panama hat
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Refusal | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Disagreeing
Actions: Economic›Trading | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance›Inscrutable | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Place›Decayed house | Place›Decayed plantation
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Digging | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Coin | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Birmingham, Alabama | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Actions: Economic›Paying | Interaction, Private›Rejection | Verbal›Speculation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Don Quixote
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Accounts
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Embedded text, cursive
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Values›Success
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reality
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Interspecies›Man-horse
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Hate | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Local legends
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Environment: Place›Spring | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Movement›Driving | Movement›Getting closer
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Bookishness | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Economy›Rural sales
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Objects›Sewing machine
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Economy›Sales contract
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Environment: Place›Country store | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Emotional›Impatience
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Scamming | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Domestic | Labor›Farming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Dowsing | Perceptual›Spying
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Stock trading | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Environment: Public›Filling Station
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Relocation
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Environment: Public›Railroad tracks | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Receiving money
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie Hait cashes check
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Law›Trespassing
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Paying | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Scamming | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Fear
Relationships: Familial›Surrogate | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Economic›Gifting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Usurpation | Health and Illness›Obesity
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | War›Glorification
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Hunting›Fox hunting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Language›Grammatically incorrect | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Barter | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Government›Depression-era programs | Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Labor
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being late / tardiness
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Government›Taxes, local
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Religion›Lay preacher
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Mental›Remembering
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Cultural Issues: Gender
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre | Narrative›Reported narration | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Escape from confinement | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Transactional | Physical›Confining | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Fireworks
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Moral›Stealing | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Escape from confinement | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Stock trading
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | War›Profiting from war
Themes and Motifs: Money›Cash | Texts›Military communications
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Military›Reconnaissance
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Alias | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Region›Hapless Yankees
Environment: Olfactory›Camp-fire smoke | Olfactory›Food | Place›Military camp
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Actions: Economic›Ascent | Emotional›Love | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Sawmilling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Honesty | Character›Responsibility | Character›Trust | Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Economic›Renting | Verbal›Storytelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Economic›Trading | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Farming | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Economy›Wages
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Paying | Economic›Trading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Mass Media›Telephone
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Sibling | Social›Adversarial | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Love | Physical›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Mass Media›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Determinism›Lack of choice | Time
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Place›Country vs city | Public›Highway
Cultural Issues: Technology›Elevator
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Legal›Warrant | Verbal›Cursing | Work›Dismissing from work
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›July
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Asking for money | Physical›Meddling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Law›Wedding license
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Language›Profanity
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Religion›Rebirth
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Selling a house or place | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Insanity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Death›Anticipation of death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Adversarial
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Law›Aviation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Economic›Store owner
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Adult-adolescent
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus
Actions: Economic›Store owner | Verbal›Command
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Domestic›Child-rearing | Economic›Indebtedness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery
Actions: Economic›Receiving money
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Economy›Wealth | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Moral›Exploitation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fire | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Economical | Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Balance
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Flood
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Indebtedness | Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Yelling
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Confession | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Bargaining
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Corpse | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Matched team of horses or mules
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Character›Helpless | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Sacrifice
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Exaggeration
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Social›Neighbor
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Graphophone
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Phonograph | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Coercion | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Parent-child
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Style›List
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Health and Illness›Convalescence | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Materialism›Status
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place | Movement›Carriage
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›October | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Crime›Embezzlement
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Natural›Moon | Time of Year›Fall
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Art›African American music
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Homer | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Overwrought
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Defiance
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Emotional›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As currency | Economy›Property | Ethnicity›Native American
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Legal›Record keeping
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Economy›Commerce | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance refusal | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Purchase
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Mental›Visualize
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Ledger
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Government›Voting rights | History›Civil War consequences | History›Reconstruction | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›White fear | Race›White supremacists | Slavery›Emancipation | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Interracial violence | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Noah/flood
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Verbal›Renunciation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Bill
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | History›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Carpentry | Economic›Saving money
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Saving money
Themes and Motifs: Money›Collecting money | Money›Hidden | Money›Inheritance
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Competition | Economic›Scheming | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Rage
Cultural Issues: Crime›Moonshining | Economy›Moonshine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Appearance›Nakedness
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Segregation›Marriage | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Inheritance›Property | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Filthy lucre | Naming›And caste | Objects›Hunting horn | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Economy›Bootlegging | Race›Black property ownership
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Verbal›Storytelling
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jehovah
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Themes and Motifs: Money›Check | Money›Silver dollar | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Money›Silver dollar | Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Buying timber | Verbal›Gossip
Actions: Economic›Banking | Hunting›Fox hunting
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Actions: Economic›Buying timber | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Saving money
Cultural Issues: Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Economic›Getting a receipt | Economic›Indebtedness
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Orphanage
Actions: Bodily›Nausea | Bodily›Recoiling | Economic›Bribing | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Toothpaste
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Believing | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Threat | Work›Farming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Half dollar
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Embarrasment | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Environment: Domestic Space
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Economic›Gifting | Physical›Chopping wood | Verbal›Lying
Themes and Motifs: Money›Cash | Money›Gift of money
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›House | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Economic›Bootlegging | Interaction, Private›Sexual | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Note | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Fear | Physical›Whistling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes
Relationships: Economical›Partnership | Sexual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Discussion | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Naming›Importance of naming
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Bodily›Sitting | Economic›Buying | Movement›Train | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Gossip
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Note | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Refusing | Violent›Beating | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Telling
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Actions: Economic›Partnership
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Place›Gate
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Moral›Blackmail
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Economic›Bribing | Moral›Scheming | Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Verbal›Calling
Cultural Issues: Technology›Public telephone
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Domestic›Child care | Economic›Sex as payment | Emotional›Confident
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Parents-children
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Bodily›Ejaculating | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Character›Fool|Foolishness
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Economic›Auction
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Economic›Horse trading
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Settling up
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Economic›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing
Actions: Economic›Competition
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Money›Promissory note
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Actions: Economic›Buying | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale
Aesthetics: Description›Grotesque
Environment: Time of Year›Harvest
Actions: Economic›Settling up
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Actions: Economic›Eviction | Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Education›College | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Style›Address to reader
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar
Relationships: Familial›Mother-infant
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Paying
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Helen | Allusion, Mythical›Paris | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Banking
Actions: Economic›Settling up | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | War›Civil War
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances
Environment: Place›City | Weather›Perfect Weather
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Kreisler, Fritz | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Health and Illness›Deafness
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›War
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation | History›Anti-Communism|McCarthy Era
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Mississippi | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Misspelling
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Economic›Factory labor
Environment: Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Factory labor
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Economic›Factory labor
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Economy›Industrialization | Health and Illness›Deafness
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Economy›Labor unions | Economy›Prices | Food›Coca-Cola | Politics›Democrat | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment
Cultural Issues: Progress›Growing population
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Recreation
Actions: Economic›Store owner
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | War›Profiting from war
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Objects›Monument | Past›Family history | Values›Family honor
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Growing population | War›Profiting from war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Actions: Economic›Competition | Emotional›Outrage
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Texts›Title
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Progress›Indoor plumbing
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