Actions: Economic Scheming
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accounting
- Ascent
- Asking for money
- Auction
- Banking
- Bankrupcy
- Bargaining
- Barter
- Blacksmithing
- Bootlegging
- Borrowing
- Bribing
- Buying
- Buying a house
- Buying a shop or store
- Buying on credit
- Buying timber
- Carpentry
- Child support
- Competition
- Delivery
- Earning Money
- Eviction
- Factory labor
- Frugality
- Getting a receipt
- Gifting
- Hiring / employing / offering a job
- Horse trading
- Impounding
- Indebtedness
- Insurance payment
- Investing
- Lending Money
- Offering to buy
- Offering to sell
- Partnership
- Paying
- Purchase
- Rationalization
- Rationing
- Receiving money
- Renting
- Saving money
- Scamming
- Selling
- Selling a house or place
- Selling land
- Settling up
- Sex as payment
- Share-cropping|Tenantry
- Shopping
- Stock trading
- Store owner
- Taking without paying
- Trading
- Transactional
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fraud | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Alcohol›Abstinence | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Health and Illness›Smoking habit | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Cultural Issues: Economy›Bargaining
Themes and Motifs: Money›Stingy with money
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Economy›Rural sales
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Objects›Sewing machine
Environment: Place›Country store | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Emotional›Impatience
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Scamming | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Domestic | Labor›Farming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Dowsing | Perceptual›Spying
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Economy›Wealth | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Moral›Exploitation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fire | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Competition | Economic›Scheming | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Rage
Cultural Issues: Crime›Moonshining | Economy›Moonshine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law
Themes and Motifs: Money›Check | Money›Silver dollar | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Exploitation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Reproduction | Sexuality›Puberty
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Parents-children | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Spring
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Death›Imagined | Objects›Pear tree
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Texas
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Objects›Pear tree
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Economic›Scheming | Physical›Whittling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cap | Health and Illness›Broken bones
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated
Themes and Motifs: Money›Confederate | Money›Treasure
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Dirty | Government›Taxes, local
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jefferson
Environment: Time of Year›March
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Emotional›Resignation
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Food›Candy
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m.
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Writing
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Objects›Monument | Past›Family history | Values›Family honor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Eula's medallion unveiled
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Growing population | War›Profiting from war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal ownership
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Government›State laws and regulations | Law›Civil suit
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Money›As motive
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Government›Civic officials | Law›Incarceration | Progress›Paving | Race›Disenfranchisement | Religion›Religious faith | Segregation›Housing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Mental›Curiosity | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal advice | Law›Parole
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Money order
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Letter | Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Scheming | Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Golf ball | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Economic›Stock trading
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Olfactory›Coffee | Olfactory›Food | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Domestic›Cooking | Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Complaining
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute | Home›Dwelling | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Fire
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Law›Lawsuit
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Payoff | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Diction›Malapropism | Diction›Rural vernacular
Themes and Motifs: Money›As symbol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Environment: Place›Country store
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Scheming | Economic›Trading | Emotional›Vengeful | Moral›Deception | Physical›Digging | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Bad conduct | Values›Truth/Lies
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Chivalry | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: War›Homefront | War›Profiting from war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Character›Coward | Character›Opportunism