Actions: Perceptual
Child Terms
- Ambiguity
- Blurring
- Dowsing
- Eavesdropping
- Experiencing second-hand / vicariously
- Familiarity
- Hearing
- Interpreting tracks
- Investigating
- Listening
- Looking
- Looking away
- Looking back
- Misreading
- Moment of vision
- Nosiness
- Observing
- Overhearing
- Passing from sight
- Professional surveillance
- Reading / Researching
- Seeing
- Sensing
- Sensing the past
- Smelling
- Spying
- Strip searching
- Surveillance
- Sweetness
- Tasting
- Tickling
- Unknowable
- Voyeurism
- Watching
Tagged Events
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Perceptual›Observing
Cultural Issues: Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Poker
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Swearing | Emotional›Relief | Hunting›Racoon hunting | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Walking | Play›Gambling | Play›Joking around | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Hay | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Health and Illness›Insanity | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›December
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Age›Maturing | Government›Generational reform | Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | War›Casualties of war | War›Cost of war | War›Homefront | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Physical disability | Death | Objects›Parcel | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Lying | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Listening | Violent›Killing of animals
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Trans-regional | Gender›Chivalry | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Home›Distance from home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast | Time of Day›Dinner | Weather›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Sewing | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Time of Day›Afternoon | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›White anxiety
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Yelling
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Environment: Domestic Space›Livestock pen
Actions: Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Union Army
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Corinth, Mississippi
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Olfactory›Smelling black
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Health and Illness›Loss of eyesight | Race›Segregated space | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Meaning›Interpretation
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
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Grief | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Listening
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hope | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Maturity | Money | Values›Greed
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Body›Intestines | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Politics›Exploitative | Prejudice›Anti-Catholic | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism | Prejudice›Racism
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Hypocrisy | Character›Power
Actions: Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Politics›Demagoguery | War›Korean War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Geese | Character›Unknowable
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Cincinnatus
Environment: Public
Actions: Perceptual
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Communal narrative
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Government | Group Mentality›Community collective | Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Economical | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Clothing | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Water
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Law›Warrant | Politics›City government
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Race›Shadow of Negro
Actions: Perceptual›Ambiguity
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Undressing
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Emotional›Calm | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Perceptual›Hearing
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Flashlight
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Actions: Emotional›Fascination | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Emotional›Fascination | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Actions: Emotional›Patience | Perceptual›Observing
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper
Actions: Perceptual›Investigating | Verbal›Questioning
Actions: Emotional›Horror | Movement›Boat | Perceptual›Investigating | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Interspecies›Animals preying on humans
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Perceptual›Investigating
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Community›Stranger | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Hierarchical
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Actions: Bodily›Blushing | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Unicorn
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Interspecies›Man-horse
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Riding
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Actions: Mental›Distrust | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Chess | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Perceptual›Spying
Themes and Motifs: Naming›False name
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Seeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Movement›Driving | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Hunting | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Unknowable
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
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: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Perceptual›Dowsing | Physical›Digging | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Folk customs
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›Sunset
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Actions: Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Investigating
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Psychological›Paranoia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Strip searching | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Past›Parental
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Morals›Chivalry
Environment: Place›Vacant house
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Chivalry
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Communication›Newspaper columns and notices | Communication›Writing | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Christ | Allusion, Biblical›Mary
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Sidewalk
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Shouting
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Running
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
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: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Sadness | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Woods | Place›Quarters | Place›Road | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Movement›Boat | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Actions: Perceptual›Misreading
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident
Actions: Perceptual›Misreading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Point-of-view
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Perceptual›Seeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Communication›Non-human | Moral›Deception | Perceptual›Ambiguity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Point-of-view | Values›Good conduct
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | History›Awareness of / Being in history | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Actions: Agricultural | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Race
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Slavery›African origins
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Drum
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Hunting›Slave hunting | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Actions: Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Actions: Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | War›Violence against civilians
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Environment: Public›Art museum
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Actions: Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Reproduction | War›Death | War›Women
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Character›Independence | Morals›Justice
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›November
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Inheritance | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Place›Jefferson | Time of Year›November
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Migration›Big Bottom | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Community›Tradition | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Indian-black | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Hunting›Waiting | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Crossing | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injury
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Animal / stable
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›November
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Objects›Footprint
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Woodpecker|Lord-to-God | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Competition | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Past | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Snake | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Compass | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Hunting›Bird hunting | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization | Movement›Wrong direction | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Named bear Ben | Home›In nature | Objects›Compass | Objects›Footprint | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Hunting›Tracking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Rabbit | Animals›Squirrel | Objects›Footprint
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Trembling | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-bear
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Train / locomotive imagery
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Failing / Failure | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Competition
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Office | Natural›Wilderness | Natural›Woods | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Gender›All-male space | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Miscegenation
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability | Time›Measuring time
Actions: Perceptual›Investigating
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Jewish | Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation | Government›Federal laws and regulations | Identity, Cultural›Northerner
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Education | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Radio | War›Aerial combat | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Withholding | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Work›Chopping wood
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Age›Youth | Nationality›Japanese | War›Patriotism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Home | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Idleness | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Sewing | Domestic›Washing | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: War›Patriotism | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Drugs
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Confining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Confining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Conflict
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Texas
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Woman smoking | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Actions: Movement›Flight | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Place›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Flight | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Race›Indistinguishable
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Teacher-student | Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Place›Campsite | Place›Decayed house
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Perceptual›Spying
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Reading
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Deception | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Gender›Gentleman | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal document | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Sensory experience | Body›Womb | Memory›Forgetting | Psychological›Will to endure | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Naming | Objects›Photograph | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Seed | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Emotional›Love | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Love
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus | Entertainment›Traveling show | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Separate spaces | Gender›Sexual double standard | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Propriety
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Moral›Prohibiting | Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Requesting | Violent›Homicide
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Law›Inheritance refusal | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Character›Pride | Death›Murder | Determinism›Fated | Determinism›Lack of choice | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Objects›Corpse | Past›Past in present | Past›Traumatic | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Dysfunctional | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Wedding | Romantic›Death | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Anaphora | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Summary | Style›List | Tone›Elegiac
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Psychological›Madness | Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mirage | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Work›Gardening
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Overhearing | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Youth vs age | Identity, Personal›Family role
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Character›Responsibility | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale | Story-telling›Family oral tradition
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Sister-sister | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Observing | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Description›Color yellow | Interpretation›Explanatory passage | Metafictional | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Time
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Clothes›Driving gear | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Redemption | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Crowd | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Picture/image | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Confused din | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Communication›Without words | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Speech | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Preserving order | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Moral authority | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Institutional›Minister and parishioner | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Diction›Accent | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Refusing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Patriarchy
Themes and Motifs: Character›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Mental›Realization | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Kicking | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Gender›Inversion | Gender›Men vs women | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as presence | Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Assertive | Objects›Phaeton | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Wealth | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Verbal›Invitation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Conviction
Actions: Military›Enlistment | Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Tombstone | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Uncertain
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Veranda | Natural›Flowers | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Lawns | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Anticipation | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Wisteria | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Tone›Nostalgic | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Olfactory›Evoking memory | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Snow
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›New England
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Texts›Letters | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Birdsong | Natural›Sky | Place›Church | Public›Church steeple | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Mental›Flashback | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Christianity | Religion›Sabbath
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Pigeons | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Continuity | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Paint | Metafictional›Painting | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Tone›Nostalgic | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Place›Blacksmith shop | Place›Church | Place›Hotel | Place›Livery stable | Place›Saloon | Public›Courthouse | Public›Store | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Curiosity | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling by name
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Economy›Commerce | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Lady | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Creating an Other | Race›Etiquette | Religion›Church service | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Fan | Objects›Parasol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Time›Past
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Institutional›Church-Town | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ancient Greek Chorus | Description›Character portrait | Description›Location portrait | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Musical imagery | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›List | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Playing cards
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery | Narrative›Summary
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Time›Lost time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Metafictional›Signs
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Hotel
Actions: Mental›Inquiry | Movement›Getting closer | Movement›Stopping | Perceptual›Investigating | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Crowding | Physical›Locking a door | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Reticence | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Social›Adversarial | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Narrative›Summary | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Retelling | Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Return | Movement›Riding | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Observing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Crime›Waistcoat | Economy›Economic speculation | Nationality›French | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Slave trading | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable | Appearance›Nakedness | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Money›Gold | Money›Loot | Time›Duration of time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Tableau | Narrative›Revision
Environment: Olfactory | Place›Jefferson | Public›Town Square
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Mental›Realization | Movement›Driving | Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Community›Local legends | Time›Anticipation | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out | Values›Determination | Values›Durability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Movement›Return | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Nationality›Foreigners
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Absence/Loss›Separation | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Withholding
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Silence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
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
Environment: Place›Jefferson | Place›River-bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Food›Scarcity | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Time›Awareness of time | Values›Determination
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Origin
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: Natural›Cedar trees | Natural›Trees | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Perceptual›Familiarity
Cultural Issues: Class›Professional
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: War›Bivouac fires | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural 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›Cold | Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Perceptual›Tasting
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Olfactory›Cigar
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Silence
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
Environment: Natural›River | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Ox | Movement›Return | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Crime›Looting | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Creating an Other | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Politics›Public opinion | Religion›Godhead | Slavery›Imported
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Money›Loot | Money›Luxury | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Place›Plantation | Public›Road | Time of Year›April
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Law›Sheriff
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Community›Posse | Community›Preserving order | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic | Institutional›Police-arrestee | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Anti-climax | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Place›Hotel | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Believing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Movement›Stopping | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Talking | Work›Hotel employee
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Legal›Arrest | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Following | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Law›Arrest
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Community›Posse | Community›Preserving order | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Office | Public›Court | Public›Courthouse | Public›Store | Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Legal›Arraign | Legal›Bonding | Movement›Procession | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Law›Arraignment | Law›Bail | Slavery›Self-emancipation | Violence›Imagined
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Public›Street | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Appearance›Surface | Character›Cautious | Character›Swagger | Community›Opinion | Past›Past in present | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Education›Harvard | History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Vengeful | Emotional›Vindictive | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Spinsterhood | Gender›Women | Religion›Presbyterian
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-righteousness | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Otherworldly | Time of Day›Midday | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Coldness | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Insight | Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Invitation | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Race›Using a Negro as messenger
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Withholding | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Height (tall, short) | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Chaos/Order | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Anticipation | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Physical resemblances
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Mask | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Appearance
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Place›Houses | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Weather›Heat
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Lace | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Home›Neglect | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Military›Service | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Killing | Violent›Murder | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Shooting | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Death | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Engagement | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Assailant-victim
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Trousseau | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Fatalism | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Barbarism | Character›Sophistication
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman consul | Allusion, Historical›Scythian
Actions: Emotional›Love | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Unconscious
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Clothes›Cloak | Clothes›Gown | Clothes›Hat | Gender›Cross-dress | Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Character›Provincialism | Character›Sophistication | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Actions: Hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Riding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Projection
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Forgiveness | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Gender›Female body | Gender›Women | Religion›Damnation | Religion›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Flesh | Body›Voice | Death›Response to | Objects›Photograph | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Obsession | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Niobe | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Investigating
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Ants | Meaning›Meaninglessness
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Supernatural›Spell | Values›Devotion
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Moral›Corrupting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Cultural Identity›Puritan | Economy›Wealth | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Perceptual›Observing
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Perceptual›Misreading
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Sawing | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Deathbed
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Buzzards | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Genre Conventions›War story | Tone›Apocalyptic
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Restlessness | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Chivalry | Race›Friendly interaction
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Environment: Time of Year›July
Actions: Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Race›Division
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Smoking | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Flirting | Verbal›Reading aloud
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Legal›Divorce | Mental›Nightmare | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Sexuality›Fantasy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Planning | Perceptual›Listening
Actions: Movement›Train | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Airplane
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Quarters | Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Footprint | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Listening
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-deer
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages | Narrative›Epiphany
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Observing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Perceptual›Interpreting tracks
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Woodpecker|Lord-to-God
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Competition
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-bear
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hunting camps
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Stabbing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Death›Animal bear
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben
Actions: Hunting›Breaking camp | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›All-male space | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal Dog | Death›Respect | Story-telling›Hunting
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Consumption
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses | Economy›Poverty | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Canaan | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Movement›Train | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Actions: Hunting›And race | Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Comedy | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Psychological›Madness
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Race›Shadow of Negro
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Listening
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Emotional›Indignation | Perceptual›Ambiguity
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And gender | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Money›Cash
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Pursuit
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial spheres | Segregation›Marriage
Relationships: Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Teaching | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Crime›Murder | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Trial | Mass Media›Newspaper | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Determinism›Genetic
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Place›Indian mound
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Actions: Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hearth | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Store clothes
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Environment: Time of Day›Four o'clock a.m.
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Legal›Exhumation order | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Socks | Clothes›Underclothes, male | Food›Breakfast
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Car | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | History›Immigration | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Office | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Saturday morning
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Suicide
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Suit
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Actions: Communication›Engrave | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Exasperation | Legal›Counsel | Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Perceptual›Sensing the past
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Ditches | Natural›Spring | Olfactory›Alcohol | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burning | Physical›Digging | Physical›Starting fire
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Magazine | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Razor | Objects›Shaving brush | Objects›Soap
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Closet | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Hurried | Emotional›Passivity | Perceptual›Overhearing | Physical›Discovering | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Body›Stomach/belly | Objects›Toothpaste
Relationships: Sexual
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Daytime
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Terror | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Lying
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Spring
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Menstruation | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Sexuality›Desire
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Moral›Stealing | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Calling by name | Verbal›Lying
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Holding | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Denial | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Looking away | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Gaining weight | Communication›Note | Emotional›Curious | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Rage | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Fantasy | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Perverse | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Coldness | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Talking
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Communication›Note | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Taunt | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Hitting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bed | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Standing | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Car | Movement›Truck | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Discovering | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Showing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Negro-lover | Religion›Apotheosis | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Crowds
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Instructing
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Auditory›Footsteps | Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›House | Time of Year›August | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Tennyson, Alfred | Style›Present tense
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Screaming
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Responding
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Time of Day›Monday morning
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Mule | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Road
Cultural Issues: Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Squatting | Bodily›Standing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hitting | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Supper table | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Year›October | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Emotional›Proud | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Questioning
Actions: Communication›Note | Emotional›Love | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Truck | Perceptual›Observing | Physical›Camping | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Standing | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Proud | Movement›Truck | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Riding | Physical›Waiting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Truck | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Shirtsleeves | Clothes›Sunday clothes
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›August | Weather›Heat
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Explaining
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Church | Place›Country club
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Partying | Interaction, Social›Peer group | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Sharing confidences
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Health and Illness›Hangover | Modernity›Interwar years | Religion›Catholicism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Dressing room | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Kissing | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Crime›Blackmail | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Black stereotype | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Building | Work›Architect | Work›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Environment: Auditory›Music | Time of Day›Saturday | Time of Year›May
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Entertainment›Music
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial spheres
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male gaze | Race›Racial spheres
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Washing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Listen
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Environment: Natural›Delta | Place›Indian mound | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Money›Social force
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Animals›Dogs | Objects›Bed | Objects›Bowl | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Curtains | Objects›Dresser | Objects›Furniture | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Pitcher | Objects›Slop jar | Objects›Towel | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Snoring | Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Environment: Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Sleeplessness | Perceptual›Listening
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Snoring | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Taunt
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Losing consciousness | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Honeysuckle | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Fantasizing | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Bribing | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Cultural Issues: Technology›Public telephone
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Extended family | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Beating | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Sexuality›Having sex | Sexuality›Impotence | Sexuality›Perverse | Sexuality›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Place›Courtroom | Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Environment: Time of Day›Saturday evening
Actions: Interaction, Social›Dances | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Dancing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Education›College life
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Home Sweet Home
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Health and Illness›Insomnia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Natural›Creek bottom | Natural›Spring | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Four o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›May
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Books
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Symbolism›Reflection
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Environment: Public›Park | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Apathy | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Sulking | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Classical music | Objects›Mirror
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple leaves train
Actions: Emotional›Self-consciousness | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Self-justifying
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Driving to Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Curious | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Maternal impulse
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Ordering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Defecation | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty
Actions: Bodily›Defecation | Bodily›Urinating | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Shame | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Running | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Pain
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Lying
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Matchstick
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Perceptual›Observing
Cultural Issues: Education›Mentorship | Entertainment›Football
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Stalking
Actions: Perceptual›Familiarity
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Parody | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Perceptual›Observing
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Perceptual›Observing
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Perceptual›Observing
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Perceptual›Observing
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Perceptual›Observing
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Dowsing | Physical›Digging | Physical›Finding | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Religion›Folk superstition
Aesthetics: Diction›Hill dialect | Style›Character portrait
Actions: Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Economy›Rural sales
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Actions: Perceptual›Observing | Physical›Digging | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Values›Greed
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Observing | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Psychological›Madness
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Investigating
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Misreading
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Place›Artist's studio
Actions: Interaction, Social›Partying | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Art›Sculpture | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Magazine | Texts›Newspapers
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Looking back | Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Steamboat | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Crime›Prostitution | Economy›Shipping | Technology›Steamboats
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Economy›Prices | Entertainment›Movies
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Actions: Agricultural›Hog farming | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Government›Welfare | History›Post-war prosperity | Politics›Liberal | Progress›Consumerism | Progress›Racialized | Sexuality›Appearance of | Sexuality›Female | War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Language›Italian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Movement›Train | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›September
Actions: Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Entertainment›Movies
Environment: Atmospheric›Sexual | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Perceptual›Misreading | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Education›Trade school | Government›Corruption | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Attic | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Moral›Blackmail | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution
Actions: Moral›Scheming | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Respect | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Stabbing
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Language›French | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Love | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Reform | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Gender›Separate spaces | Labor›Prostitution | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wedding ring | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Domestic Space›Upstairs | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Shouting | Work›Washing clothes
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Hee hee hee | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Loft | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Sensing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Mouth | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Month of brides
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Peace | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bride / Bridal | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Apple tree
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Auditory›Water | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Lichen / fungi | Natural›River | Natural›Rocks / stones | Natural›Sky | Public›Bridge
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Figures of Speech›Stone | Symbolism›Reflection
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Sexual double standard | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Unnatural / Contrary to nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›Leaf / leaves | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Religion›Resurrection
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish | Animals›Insects mayflies | Appearance›Depth / deepness | Appearance›Surface | Body›Eyes | Death›Afterlife | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Bones | Death›Compared to sleep | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Allusion, Mythical›Narcissus | Figures of Speech›Arrow | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Symbolism›Christian
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Year›August | Weather
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Nostalgia | Emotional›Sadness | Perceptual›Familiarity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Preparing for death | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Philosophical›Tedious / tedium | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Natural›Trees | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Objects›Wheel | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Shame | Perceptual›Sensing | Physical›Pushing away | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Movement›Buggy | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Description›Color white
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Following | Perceptual›Looking back | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Isolation
Environment: Public›Post office | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Law›Marshal | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Place›Road
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Home | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Auditory›Bees | Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Grass | Natural›Orchard | Natural›Vines | Natural›Weeds | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Place›Houses | Place›Road | Weather›Rain
Actions: Movement›Running | Perceptual›Looking back | Physical›Escaping
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Home | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Lifting | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Gender›Body | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Relationships: Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Climbing | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Natural›Water moving / flowing
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pencil
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Flowers | Natural›Moss | Natural›River | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Natural›Woods | Place›Road
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hair ribbons | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Hair pigtails | Appearance›Invisibility | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Home | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Profound | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Dancing | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Dress | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic | Sexual
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Moss | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Beavers | Animals›Horses | Appearance›Nakedness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Body›Chins | Body›Male body | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Water | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Listening | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Domestic Space›Hogwallow | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Sweetness | Perceptual›Tasting | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Touching | Physical›Turning away | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Face | Body›Fingers | Body›Legs | Body›Lips | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Freudian | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Natural›Creek | Public›Golf course
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Searching | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Age | Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Memory›Remembering | Money›Lost | Objects›Candle | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Place›Houses | Public›Bridge | Public›Street
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Hat cap | Clothes›Motoring clothes | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Body›Arm
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England | Description›Color pink
Environment: Natural›Sky | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Trees | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Stone wall | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Laughing | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Touching | Physical›Wave / waving | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Chatter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Bread | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring | Verbal›Joking
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Gender›Female body
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Language›Fragments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Winking | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat cap | Clothes›Motoring clothes | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Male body | Gender›Masculinity | War›U.S. Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Boat | Objects›Oars
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Winking | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Male body | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Oars | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Othello | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Abduction myths | Allusion, Mythical›Euboeleus / Eubuleus | Allusion, Mythical›Persephone | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Coupled | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Swine | Language›Fragments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Lust | Moral›Confession | Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Verbal›Responding
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Values›Evil | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Sexual
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Light | Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Heartbeat | Auditory›Insect sounds | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Creek | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›Sand | Natural›Sky | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Heart beating | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Lying | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Starting over | Physical›Touching | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Skirt | Clothes›Wet clothes | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Insects crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Body›Knee | Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Objects›Fence | Objects›Willow tree | Objects›knife | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Romantic›Sexual | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Island of silence | Figures of Speech›Mirror | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›no no | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Cleansing power of water | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Feeding | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Shame | Emotional›Shock | Perceptual›Sensing | Physical›Climbing stairs | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Body›Arm | Body›Eyes | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Vest | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Sexual double standard | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Control | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Actions: Bodily›Squatting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Undressing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Clothes›Undressing | Education›Primary school | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Communication›Letter | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Labor›Racialized | Prejudice›Racism | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insect boll weevil | Money›Check | Objects›Farming tools | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Actions: Communication›Letter | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Burning
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Natural›Hills
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Laughing | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Mental›Hallucinating | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Kicking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Pigs | Community›Wedding | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Coffee | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Cruel
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-daughter
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Money order
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Easter
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Cruelty | Emotional›Sulking | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Locking a door | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Smallpox | Mass Media›Newspaper | Religion›Divine judgment | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night | Character›Self-righteousness | Death›Longing for death | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-niece
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Perceptual›Smelling
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Easter
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Hungering | Domestic›Feeding | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Nonverbal taunting or teasing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Food›Breakfast
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Auditory›Clock ticking | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Eating breakfast | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing stairs | Physical›Climbing tree | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence of sound | Objects›Fire | Objects›Hot water bottle | Objects›Pear tree | Objects›Stove | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Cellar | Olfactory›Smelling death
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Objects›Fence | Objects›Musical instrument | Objects›Saw | Objects›Umbrella | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Description›Color maroon | Description›Color purple
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Mental›Predicting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death | Naming›Renaming | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Public›Road | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›Sermon
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Public›Golf course | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Impairment | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Psychological›Learning disability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Place›Ditch
Actions: Perceptual›Ambiguity | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Animal horse | Death›Bones | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Night | Auditory›Howling | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Servants' home | Natural›Creek | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Ditch | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Death›Bones | Death›Response to
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Symbolism›Shadows
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Perceptual›Tasting | Perceptual›Tickling
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Natural›Trees
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Laughing | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Parlor | Natural›Trees
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Cellar | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Laughing | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Dogs | Community›Wedding | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Bathing | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Age›Maturing | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Hat | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Perfume | Objects›Toys | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Comforting | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Perfume | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Comforter | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Character›Independence | Character›Innocence | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Objects›Furniture | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Courage
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Domestic Space›Backyard | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Age | Clothes›Tie | Entertainment›Magic trick | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Mute | Ritual›Birthday | Sexuality›Birth control | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Mouth | Futility | Money›Lost | Objects›Condom | Objects›Fence | Objects›Fire | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Objects›Poison | Objects›Swing | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Learning disability | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Weather›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Waiting | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Sneaking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hurried | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Running | Movement›Running away | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Booksatchel | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Recurring Episodes›Benjy accosts schoolgirl
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Offering to sell | Economic›Taking without paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Rain on roof | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Sadness | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Crying | Moral›Punishment | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Nonverbal taunting or teasing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Food›Birthday cake | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fire | Objects›knife | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling death | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Studying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Carrying | Play›Children playing | Verbal›Complaining | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Dolls | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Scissors | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Play | Work
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Psychological›Madness | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Rain | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Wishing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Dolls | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Body›Eyes | Body›Mouth | Money›Lost | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof | Time of Year›November
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Private›Parenting | Mental›Disbelief | Mental›Skepticism | Mental›Understanding | Moral›Lying | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Honor | Verbal›Lying | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Physical discipline
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Pushing away
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Eyes | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Feeding | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Food
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Fire | Philosophical›Luck | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Emotional›Hate | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Throwing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Arm | Body›Mouth | Objects›Drinking glass | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Interracial›Domestic
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Stairway | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Mental›Studying | Moral›Punishment | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Burning | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Lifting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Mouth | Body›Shoulder | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Paper | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Sick room | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Bodily›Squatting | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Finding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Mumbling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Memory›Remembering | Money›Gift of money | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Grass | Natural›Trees
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Escape from confinement
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Nightgown | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Surgical castration | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Body›Testicles | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Windows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Kissing | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Confining | Physical›Locking a door | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hot water bottle | Objects›Locks | Philosophical›Freedom | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Sick room | Olfactory›Smelling death
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Kissing | Bodily›Sleeping | Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Caring | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Clothes›Undressing | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling | Interracial›Domestic
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Collar box | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Past
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Thursday
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Pants | Education›College | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Mouth | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being late / tardiness | Time›Being on time / punctuality | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Mental›Thinking | Non-human›Animal senses | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Objects›Bed | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Environment: Public›Academic quad / quadrangle | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m.
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Socks | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education›College | Education›College class or lecture
Themes and Motifs: Body›Foot / Feet | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coffee | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being late / tardiness
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Collar | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education›College | Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Body›Foot / Feet | Objects›Books | Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Being in time | Time›Being on time / punctuality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Non-human›Bird flying | Non-human›Bird watching a human | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Clock | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-bird
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Ferris wheel | Entertainment›World's Fair | Materialism›Americana | Materialism›Souvenir | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Jewelry Charm | Objects›Opera glass | Objects›Peep-hole viewer / Stanhope | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Feeling pain | Bodily›Shaving | Communication›Addressing for mail delivery | Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Packing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Suit | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Keys | Objects›Paper | Objects›Trunk | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Undressing | Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Vest | Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flowers Roses | Objects›Mirror | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Figures of Speech›Armor | Figures of Speech›Cloud | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency | Government›Welfare | Prejudice›Racism
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Clock tower | Public›Store | Public›Store window | Public›Street
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Street vendor / service worker | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking away | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Boot-black / Shoe shine | Work›Jeweler
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Money›Gift of money | Money›Nickel coin | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Town clock
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Natural›Grass | Public›Store | Time of Year›September
Actions: Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Moral›Lying | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Repair | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Questioning | Work›Jeweler
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Boat race | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Objects›Clock | Objects›Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Public›Store window | Time of Year›December
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Body›Hair | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Folk customs | Supernatural›Superstitions | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Measuring time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Philosopher Bergson, Henri | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Drained marsh | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Water | Narrative›African-American folk sayings
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, derby | Clothes›Shoes | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Colored people as acceptable terminology | Race›Race as a form of behavior | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Region›North | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Reflection
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Smelling water | Public›Street
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Work clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Gulls | Body›Knee | Objects›Basket | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Ship | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Actions: Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Maritime / Marine
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, straw | Technology›Shipping schooner | Technology›Shipping tugboat
Environment: Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Education›Being well read / erudite | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Olfactory›Smelling death
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Direction east | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, straw
Themes and Motifs: Time›Return to present time
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Streetlamp | Auditory›Insect sounds | Time of Year›August | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Sensing | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Women | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Nihilism | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Respect | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Women | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Conversation
Actions: Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Crime›Gambling | Crime›Prostitution | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Law›Police
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Community›Preserving order
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Time›Awareness of time
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Stock trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Banking | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Environment: Place›Playground | Public›School
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Suit | Education›Graduation | History›Civil War | Progress›Cars | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Money›Inheritance | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Nickname
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy | Time of Day›Nine o'clock a.m.
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Hysteria | Moral›Stealing | Perceptual›Investigating | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Questioning | Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Drugs | History›Civil War as point of reference | Law›Police | Mass Media›Newspaper
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Seeing
Actions: Emotional›Suspicion | Moral›Scheming | Perceptual›Investigating | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Government›Civic officials | Law›Clue | Law›Legal issue | Sexuality›Pornography
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Law›Corruption
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Perceptual›Observing
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Car horn | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Movement›Car | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Apology
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Religion›Church service
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Cicero
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Actions: Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Values›Propriety
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy | Public›Town Square | Time of Year›February
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dressed up
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Texts›Letters | Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Auditory›Gallop | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment | Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Yard | Olfactory›Ammonia | Olfactory›Smoke | Olfactory›Sweat | Time of Day›Nine o'clock a.m. | Weather›Fog
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Natural›Fire | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Burning | Physical›Extinguishing fire | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Fireman
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Material | Art›Painting | Community›Crowd | Money | Objects›Chair | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Environment: Place›Ditch | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Actions: Perceptual›Spying
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Government›Local laws and regulations | Politics›City government
Environment: Atmospheric›Night | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Laughing | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Movement›Car | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Checkers | Play›Chess | Verbal›Arguing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Coffee | Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Conflict | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Environment: Place›Decayed house | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver | Objects›Silverware | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Domestic Space›Log yard
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Oh Oh Oh Oh
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Place›Smokehouse | Time of Day›Afternoon | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Emotional›Intuition | Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Yelling
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Environment: Domestic Space›Livestock pen
Actions: Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Union Army
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Lying | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Listening | Violent›Killing of animals
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Trans-regional | Gender›Chivalry | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Riding | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Black stereotype | War›Destruction | War›Violence against civilians
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | History›Awareness of / Being in history | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Typography/Orthography›Dots