Actions: Violent
Child Terms
- Airplane crash
- Animal abuse
- Animal attack on human
- Animal predatory behavior
- Arson
- Asphyxiation
- Assault
- Beating
- Boxing
- Car accident
- Castration
- Dehumanization
- Destructive behavior
- Disfigurement
- Domestic violence
- Dragging
- Entry
- Explosion
- Fighting
- Hitting
- Homicide
- Intent to kill
- Interracial
- Intimidation
- Kicking
- Kidnapping
- Killing
- Killing in war
- Killing of animals
- Lynch mob
- Murder
- Mutilation
- Poisoning
- Raiding
- Restraining
- Scratching
- Self-mutilation
- Sexual assault
- Shooting
- Slapping
- Stabbing
- Suicide
- Tar-and-feather
- Threatening
- Throwing downstairs
- Vengeance
- Violence against animals
- Whipping
Tagged Events
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death | Values›Bad conduct
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Realization | Play›Poker | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
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: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Suspicion | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Play›Prank | Verbal›Bragging | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Technology›Automobile
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Moral›Deception | Moral›Scheming | Play›Prank | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Law›Revenue officer
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Explaining
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Communication›Language barriers | Moral›Deception | Movement›Walking | Physical›Capture | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic | Physical›Burning | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Past | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Crime›Murder | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suspicious | Naming›Renaming
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Poisoning
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Native American
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Violent›Intimidation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Violent›Intimidation
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Physical›Jumping | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Killing of animals
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Communication›Letter | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Identity, Personal
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National | War›Defeat
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Uniform
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Animal abuse
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Meaning›Misinterpretation | Psychological›Paranoia
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Uniform
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gilbert and Sullivan | Language›French | Tone›Humorous
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Character›Recklessness
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
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
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Economy›Property | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Commandments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Violent›Disfigurement | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Naming›Change over time | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poster
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Disguise | Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Character›Hubris | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Genre Conventions›Parable | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Violent›Castration
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy castrated
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Command | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Animals›Whippoorwills | Home | Objects›Candle | Philosophical›Ethics | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Abusive | Marital›Conflict
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Year›Spring
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab's war wound
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Women | Gender›Femininity
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Kinship
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal issue
Themes and Motifs: Values›Justice | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›April
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Disguise
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Silence | Violent›Vengeance
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype mule
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›July Fourth
Actions: Movement›Flight | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Law›Legal document
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Limping | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Food›Gum | Law›Aviation | War›Veterans
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Stereotypical Jewish accent
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Prejudice›Racism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Breathing | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Environment: Domestic Space›Closet
Actions: Interaction, Social›Competition | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Passing | Race›Racial identity | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Racialized
Relationships: Interracial›Prospective
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Cleansing power of water
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Not caring about race | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Accident
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
Environment: Place›Country vs city | Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›Breaking and entering
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Health and Illness›Injury | Law›Arrest
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Hate | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Local legends
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Trying to kill Gualdres
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Train | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Named bear Ben | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname
Cultural Issues: Violence›Accident | Violence›Interracial
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Hunting›Waiting | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Values›Courage | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal bear | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Owed
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Terror | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Moral›Confession | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Pneumonia
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Environment: Place›Gas station | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Alibi | Law›Eyewitness
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Public›Railroad tracks | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Place›Crime scene | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›April
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Auditory›Gallop | Domestic Space›Outhouse | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: War›Pillage | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Moral›Cheating | Play›Gambling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Murder | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift | Narrative›Summary | Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Tennessee
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Violent›Explosion
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Labor | Religion›Rituals and rites
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Food›Community | Region›Reconstruction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Veil | Law›Legal issue | Politics›Election | Politics›Voting | Race
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Ambiguous circumstances
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Determinism›Fated | Memory›Forgetting
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Forgetting
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›And an animal | Past›Past in present
Actions: Violent›Domestic violence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Drugs | Law›Arrest
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Community›Taboos | Death›Ambiguous circumstances
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Detective fiction
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Domestic violence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Inherited traits | Inheritance›Property
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Gender | Race | Religion | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Race | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Nancy confronts white man
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Lane
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Monday morning | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Holding | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Message | Verbal›Promising | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Physical›Carrying | Physical›Running | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Vengeance
Themes and Motifs: Death›Denial | Death›Moving a dead body
Aesthetics: Narrative›Child's perspective
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
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: Time of Year›November
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Dogs
Environment: Olfactory›Decomposition
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Spectral
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Dismemberment | Legal›Arrest | Physical›Searching | Violent›Animal attack on human | Violent›Violence against animals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Animals›Dogs
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Economy›Market day
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Naming
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Government›Abdication | Government›Inherited position | Government›Usurpation | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Decayed house
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Economy›Gambling | Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Kinlessness | Naming›Nickname
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | War›Deployment
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Physical›Capture | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Auditory›Engine | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Movement›Flight | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Race›Black body
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Books | Texts›Anthropological
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Borneo
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Violent›Murder | Violent›Vengeance | Violent›Whipping
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash kills Sutpen
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Murder | Work›Law enforcement
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Scythe
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash charges posse
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Despair | Military›Combat | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Return | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide | Gender›Widow | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Character›Pride | Character›Scoundrel | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Home›Estranged | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife
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
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Moral›Judgmental | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Respectability | Crime›Gambling | Law›Wedding license | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Determinism›Fated | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Meaning | Past›Historical wrong | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Symbolism›Roman
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
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
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Honky-Tonks | Race›Racial identity
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Race›Segregation
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Texts
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Sneaking | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Religion›Providence | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Determinism›Fated | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Stable | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Running | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Wrestling | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Vowing | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Maternal impulse | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Interracial violence | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Slavery | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Sound of drums | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Odor
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Objects›Horsewhip | Objects›Scythe | Time›Duration of time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Community›Posse | Death›Corpse | Objects›Scythe | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash charges posse
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Playing cards
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery | Narrative›Summary
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Warning | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Retelling | Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Gaps
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Atmospheric›Smoke | Atmospheric›Torch-light | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Interaction, Social›Social protest | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Protection | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Shouting | Violent
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Ritual›Wedding | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Style›Long sentence
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Chivalry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Futility | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Recovery | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Repair | Physical›Searching | Play›Betting | Verbal›Arguing | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Breast | Death›Coffin | Objects›Construction tools | Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Character›Violent | Death›And inheritance | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative anomaly | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Art›Classical Greek | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Legal›Charge/accuse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Crime›Arson | Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Economy›Property | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Death›Burial | Philosophical›Ethics | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Values›Propriety
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Worry | Verbal›Hushing | Violent
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Fish | Death›Response to
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight
Actions: Economic›Transactional | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Struggling | Violent›Intimidation
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›War story
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Moonshine | War›Death | War›World War I
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Character›Courteous | Character›Recklessness | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Coffee
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Actions: Movement›Horse | Violent›Animal attack on human | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Violence›Accident
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Frogs | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Violence against animals
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Military›Escape | Movement›Limping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Environment: Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Law›Witness
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | Politics›And race
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic | Health and Illness›Nausea | War›World War I | War›Wound
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hunting clothes | Education›Princeton | Hunting and Fishing›Trophy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible | Objects›Photograph | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Fatalism | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Violent›Interracial | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Race›Disenfranchisement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Tone›Incongruous
Actions: Emotional›Hero worship | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Trembling | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Nightmare | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Restraining | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Restraining
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
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: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Bodily›Watching | Economic›Banking | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Terror | Moral›Blackmail | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating | Violent›Dragging | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Health and Illness›Insomnia | Sexuality›Fantasy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Non-human›Dog barking | Physical›Escape from confinement | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Bandage | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Year›December
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ancestral
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Naming›Nickname
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Arkansas
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Feminine
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Education›Expelled / expulsion | Education›Truancy
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Flapper
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Actions: Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Movement›Flight | Violent›Airplane crash
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Ohio | Recurring Episodes›Young Bayard's death
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Economy›Industrialization | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Body›Moustache | Character›Ambitious | Futility | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Revenge | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Determination
Actions: Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights | Race›Inequalities | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Movement›Truck | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Violent›Interracial | Work›Dismissal
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Moral›Cheating | Play›Gambling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Murder | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Lynch mob
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Tennessee
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black incarceration | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Character›Power | Death›Suspicious
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Non-human›Attack | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background | Recurring Episodes›Boon shoots Negro
Actions: Play›Card playing | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Marksmanship
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Language›snicksnicksnick...
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
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
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Violent›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Mental›Realization | Mental›Visualize | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›And race | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness
Actions: Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Razor
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Breathing | Emotional›Jealousy | Mental›Planning | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Economy›Savings | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Daybreak
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Competition | Familial›Extended family
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Competitive
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Monday
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Race›White supremacists
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Sleeplessness | Emotional›Exhaustion | Movement›Car | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country store | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Squatting | Bodily›Standing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Intent to kill | Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Suit | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Repetition | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Office | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Saturday morning
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Suicide
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Legal›Handcuffing | Violent›Interracial
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Legal›Charge/accuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Black incarceration
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Dusk
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Actions: Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Waiting | Emotional›Worry | Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Tennis shoes
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
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: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Lynch mob
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Division
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Falling | Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Singing | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Panting | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Asphyxiation | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Valley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Emotional›Calm | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Accepting | Violent›Killing of animals | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Menstruation | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Women | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Archangel Michael | Allusion, Biblical›Jezebel | Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Running | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Romeo and Juliet | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Vindictive | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Breaking | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dishes | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Politics›Democrat | Region›New England | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New England
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Running away | Physical›Washing clothes | Verbal›Tirade | Violent›Beating | Violent›Domestic violence
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Denim | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Shirt | Religion›Fanaticism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Objects›Pistol
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Preacher / Minister
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Actions: Emotional›Hero worship | Violent›Killing
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Race›White supremacists | War›Civil War consequences
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Killing | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Vengeance
Cultural Issues: Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›French | Race›Mixed race | War›Civil War | War›Civil War consequences
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
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›Garden | Time of Day›Night
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: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Demanding | Verbal›Telling | Verbal›Withholding | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Violence›By police | Violence›Interracial
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Holding | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Miscegenation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Sheriff's office | Public›Restaurant | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Looking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Threat | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Hitting
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Watching | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Moralizing | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Domestic Space›House | Public›Church
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Pregnancy | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Abortion | Race›White supremacists | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
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
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Style›Present tense | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Hiding | Movement›Running | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Racial identity
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | Clothes›Uniform | Nationality›American | Race›White supremacists
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Killing
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Movement›Car | Movement›Running | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Pushing away | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Castration | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Killing | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Race›White race | Violence›Castration | Violence›Lynching | Violence›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Civil War consequences
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Note | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Refusing | Violent›Beating | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Kidnapping | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Crime›Kidnapping
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Violent›Kidnapping
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Abandonment | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Violent›Murder
Environment: Domestic Space›Dressing room
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Money›Cash | Objects›Baby bottle
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-infant | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Adultery
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Running away | Verbal›Disagreeing | Violent›Murder | Violent›Shooting
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Violence›Drunken brawling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Identity, Personal›Hypocritical | Sexuality›Interracial
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
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›Bedroom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Sexual assault
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Cultural Issues: Crime›Gambling | Crime›Kidnapping
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dice | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Falling | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Mourning | Emotional›Sadness | Interaction, Social›Partying | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Invitation | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Hat cap | Entertainment›Traditional music | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | Religion›Hymns
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Death›Funeral | Death›Wake | Objects›Coffin
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
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
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Crime›Arson | Health and Illness›Insanity | Health and Illness›Venereal disease
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Doctor-patient
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Coolidge, Calvin
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Health and Illness›Developmental problems | Ritual›Birthday | Sexuality›Impotence
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Invalid | Law›Reformatory
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Car accident
Actions: Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry | Violence›Drunken brawling
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Nightgown | Clothes›Raincoat | Gender›Chivalry | Sexuality›Desire | Violence›Sexual
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Violence›Domestic
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Narrative›Anti-climax
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Male rivalry | Religion›Church service
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven
Environment: Place›Road | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Interracial›Companions
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›McCarron ambushed
Cultural Issues: Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass knuckles
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Futility›Inability | Objects›Padlock
Cultural Issues: Gender›Inversion | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Violence›Gendered
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Bodily›Barefooted | Violent›Domestic violence
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Poverty | Law›Execution | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Objects›Shotgun | Objects›Toys | Past›Past in present
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Environment: Olfactory›Decomposition | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Animal attack on human
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft | War›Civil War | War›Profiting from war
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab's war wound
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Crime›Horse theft | Crime›Murder | Race›Subverting a stereotype
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Violence against animals
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Violent›Violence against animals
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Actions: Perceptual›Observing | Physical›Digging | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Values›Greed
Actions: Violent›Threatening
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Field
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Character›Curmudgeonly | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Threatening
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Physical›Escape from confinement | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Beating | Violent›Stabbing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Environment: Place›Penitentiary | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service | Religion›Relationship with God | Religion›Sect
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Christmas card
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Natural›Woods
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Verbal›Praying | Violent›Shooting
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Having sex
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Place›Cotillion Club | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Violent›Car accident
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Barber shop
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Movement›Aviation | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Actions: Movement›Aviation | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Death›Plane accident
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Ohio | Recurring Episodes›Young Bayard's death
Environment: Public›Barber shop
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation | History›Anti-Communism|McCarthy Era
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Physical›Burning | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan | Race›Negro-lover
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›All caps | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Bodily›Dismemberment | Emotional›Fear | Military›Combat | Military›Retreat | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Anti-Asian | War›Atrocity | War›World War II
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Law›Abuse of office | Violence›By police | Violence›Interracial
Environment: Time of Day›Four o'clock p.m.
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Violent›Arson | Violent›Destructive behavior
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Law›Trespassing
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Violence›Ambush
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Progress›New replacing old | Religion›Religious faith | Slavery›As cause of Civil War | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Father-daughter
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
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Law›Insanity plea
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Law›Abuse of office
Actions: Violent›Tar-and-feather
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Sexuality›Adult-adolescent
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Character›Inherited traits | Morals›Hypocrisy | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Violent›Animal attack on human | Violent›Killing
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Violence›Domestic
Relationships: Romantic›Infidelity
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Public›Alley | Time of Year›May
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Cultural Issues: Law›Sheriff's deputy | Law›Witness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Violence›Shooting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Abuse of office | Law›Corruption | Law›Sheriff | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Law
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Elite | Race›Genealogy | Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation | Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Sheriff | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Morals›Chivalry | Naming›Nickname | Past›Innocence
Environment: Olfactory›Excrement | Place›Medical practice
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Garter | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Cultural Issues: Law›Corruption
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Abuse of office | Violence›Gendered
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Shock | Movement›Buggy | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation | Crime›Vagrancy | Health and Illness›Nursing | Health and Illness›Stroke | Law›Abuse of office | Law›Corruption | Violence›Gendered
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Ladies parlor | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alps | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Electrification
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Legal›Locking up | Movement›Car | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Law›Abuse of office
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hardwick, Tennessee | Language›Profanity
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Monteagle, Tennessee | Language›Profanity
Actions: Communication›By sound | Communication›Car horn | Communication›Telegraph | Moral›Reform | Movement›Car | Violent›Animal abuse
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Mule | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Restraining | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth | Recurring Tropes›Recovery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hardwick, Tennessee | Language›Profanity
Environment: Place›Outlaw country | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Conversion | Physical›Riding | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Environment: Natural›River | Natural›Tide flat / marsh | Natural›Trees | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Weather
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Entertainment›Boat race | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Traits | Gender›Women | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Art›Photograph | Character›Inherited traits | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Boat | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New London, Connecticut | Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Castration | Violent›Self-mutilation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Body›Blood | Body›Testicles | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Legal›Marriage | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Lying | Play›Card playing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Education›Exams / tests | Education›Expelled / expulsion | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Character›Blackguard | Character›Scoundrel | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Bad conduct | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Social›Adversarial | Social›Club | Social›Isolation
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Olfactory›Baking / bread
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Charity | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Stealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Jewish | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Food›Bread | Food›Cake | Food›Coffee | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›American | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Librarian look | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Money›Nickel coin | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Isolation
Actions: Bodily›Swallowing | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Physical›Kissing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic
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: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Grass | Natural›Mud | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Bodily›Panting | Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Caring | Violent›Scratching
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Running sound | Natural›Water moving / flowing
Actions: Bodily›Retching | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Laughing | Legal›Arrest | Legal›Handcuffing | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Stuttering / stammering | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Vest | Food›Bread | Health and Illness›Nausea | Law›Badge | Law›Constitutional right to remain silent | Law›Criminal assault | Law›Criminal assault and battery | Law›Custody | Nationality›Foreigners | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insects butterflies | Appearance›Dirty | Body›Arm | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Shoulder | Body›Stomach/belly | Body›Throat | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Civic | Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Assailant-victim
Aesthetics: Description›Color yellow | Language›Foreign accent / dialect | Language›ah ah ah
Environment: Domestic Space›Chicken coop / hen house | Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Legal›Arrest | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Movement›Procession | Physical›Climbing | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Beating | Violent›Kidnapping | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Veil | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Law›Custody | Law›Marshal | Technology›Automobile | Violence›Child abuse | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Foot / Feet | Memory›Forgetting
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Malapropism | Figures of Speech›Glove | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Olfactory›Tobacco | Public›Town hall
Actions: Communication›Pen and ink well | Legal›Arraign | Legal›Charge/accuse | Legal›Hearing | Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Legal›Record keeping | Legal›Release of prisoner | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Procession | Violent›Kidnapping | Work›Leaving work
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Labor | Law›Corruption | Law›Evidence | Law›Eyewitness | Law›Hearing | Law›Justice of the Peace | Law›Legal document | Law›Legal fine | Law›Marshal | Law›Testimony | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Nationality›U.S. citizenship | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Nose | Chaos/Order›Order in a courtroom | Money›Payoff | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Stove | Objects›Table | Recurring Tropes›Door | Texts›Citizenship papers | Texts›Map | Texts›Plat
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Institutional›Police-arrestee | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Scolding | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Legal›Arrest | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Clothes›Veil | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self | Technology›Automobile
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Tone›Sarcastic
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Love | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Emotional›Humiliation | Emotional›Love | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Injury | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Adversarial
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Immodest female clothing | Education›Truancy
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Violent›Threatening | Violent›Whipping
Relationships: Familial›Physical discipline | Familial›Uncle-niece | Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Immodest female clothing | Entertainment›Traveling show | Gender›Clothing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Bow and arrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
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: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Naivety | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Economic›Asking for money | Moral›Lying | Moral›Stealing | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
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: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Injury
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Death›Animal Dog | Death›Animal horse | Death›Funeral | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Hay | Agriculture›Matched team of horses or mules | Alcohol | Health and Illness›Injured | Prejudice›White supremacy | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Philosophical›Nihilism | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Horace | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Mythical›Arcadia | Tone›Humorous | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Heartbeat | Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Movement›Running | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Kissing | Physical›Touching | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Swing | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Physical›Escape from confinement | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insanity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Walking | Physical›Escape from confinement | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water
Actions: Verbal›Lying | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: History›American historical myths | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Crystal | Objects›Dresser | Objects›Watch | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time | Time›Timelessness
Environment: Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Clothes›Garter | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Circus | Gender›Marriage | Region›The South | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›McCarron ambushed
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Missing
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Weak heart
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Actions: Violent›Airplane crash
Themes and Motifs: Death
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Violent›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Character›Work ethic | Objects›Shotgun | Objects›Watermelon
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie | Sexuality›Learning about | Technology›Car
Relationships: Familial›Twins | Romantic›Flirtation
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Jealousy | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Baseball
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Violent›Fighting
Environment: Domestic Space›Lot
Actions: Legal›Bailing out | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Daring | Violent›Fighting | Work›Losing job | Work›Quitting job
Cultural Issues: Law›Frontier justice
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability | Body›Prosthetic | Body›Stomach/belly
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Public›Railroad tracks
Actions: Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Ironic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Frustration | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Killing of animals | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses | Symbolism›Fire
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Violent›Shooting
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Mental›Believing | Mental›Understanding | Moral›Forgiveness | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Sex and death
Themes and Motifs: Community›Conformity | Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Violent›Assault | Work›Blacksmith
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Two o'clock a.m.
Actions: Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Threatening
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Drugs | Health and Illness›Sleeping pill
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Hunting›Teaching | Violent›Dehumanization
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child | Hierarchical›Parent-child
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Sexuality›Adult-adolescent | Violence›Castration | Violence›Rape
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Hunting›Rabbit hunting | Physical›Jumping | Play›Children playing | Play›Gambling | Play›Playing in water | Violent›Shooting
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Competitive | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Movement›Car | Physical›Repair | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Destructive behavior
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ha ha ha | Tone›Humorous | Typography/Orthography›All caps | Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Staring | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Vengeful | Physical›Dancing | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Courtship
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Natural›River | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Singing | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Explosion
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Verbal›Listen | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Virginia
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Olfactory›Gunpowder | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Corpse | Death›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Place›Decayed house | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Boots | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shabby | Clothes›Shirt | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement | War›Union Army
Actions: Movement›Hiding | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Assault | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Actions: Violent›Fighting | Violent›Killing | Violent›Restraining | Violent›Shooting | Violent›Stabbing
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Actions: Movement›Mule | Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insanity | Slavery›Violence
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Government›Voting rights | Race›White supremacists
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Domestic›Knitting | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | War›Reconstruction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Wedding dress | Race›White supremacists
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Objects›Pistol
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Gender›Clothing | Gender›Masculine woman
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | War›Reconstruction
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Tradition | Death›Corpse | Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female intuition | Law›Eye for an eye
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lucifer | Description›Eyes | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Hotel | Public›Street | Time of Day›Eleven o'clock | Weather›Heat
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
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
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Profanity
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Displacement | War›Union Army