Actions: Emotional Regret
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Amazement
- Ambivalence
- Anger
- Anguish
- Annoyed
- Anticipation
- Anxiety
- Apathy
- Attraction
- Betrayal
- Bewilderment
- Callousness
- Calm
- Caring
- Coldness
- Comforting
- Confident
- Contempt
- Cruelty
- Crying
- Curious
- Cynicism
- Defeat
- Defiance
- Dementia
- Denial
- Despair
- Detachment
- Disappointment
- Disgust
- Dread
- Embarrasment
- Empathy
- Exasperation
- Excitement
- Exhaustion
- Expecting
- Exultation
- Fascination
- Fear
- Frustration
- Fury
- Gratitude
- Grief
- Guilt
- Happy
- Hate
- Hero worship
- Homesickness|Longing for home
- Hope
- Horror
- Humiliation
- Hurried
- Hurting
- Hysteria
- Impatience
- Incredulity
- Indecision
- Indifference
- Indignation
- Inferiority
- Intimidation
- Introspective
- Intuition
- Jealousy
- Joy
- Laughing
- Longing
- Love
- Lust
- Moaning
- Mourning
- Nostalgia
- Numbness
- Nurturing
- Outrage
- Overwhelmed
- Panic
- Passivity
- Patience
- Peace
- Petulance
- Pity
- Possessiveness
- Practicality
- Proud
- Rage
- Reassurance
- Rebelliousness
- Recovery
- Refusal
- Relief
- Repentance
- Resentment
- Resignation
- Respect
- Restlessness
- Sadness
- Satisfaction
- Scolding
- Seduction
- Self-consciousness
- Self-doubt
- Self-pity
- Selfishness
- Shame
- Shock
- Stubbornness
- Sulking
- Surprise
- Suspicion
- Sympathy
- Terror
- Theatricality
- Tolerance
- Tragic / tragedy
- Triumph
- Vengeful
- Vindictive
- Waiting
- Worry
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Water moving / flowing | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Violence›Ambush
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Capture as loss | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Racial spheres | Slavery›Metaphorical | War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
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: Public›Restaurant | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Embarrasment | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Believing | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Believing | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Threat | Work›Farming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Movement›Running away
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Unseen voice
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Thinking | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Future | Death›Killing oneself slowly | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital | Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Mississippi | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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: Domestic Space›Hall
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Embarrasment | Emotional›Guilt | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pushing away
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Eyes | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Embarrasment | 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: Auditory›Clock ticking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Helen of Troy
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Character›Coward | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Domestic Space›Porch
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Master-slave