Aesthetics: Language
Child Terms
- Aaahhhhhhh
- Abundance or flow of words
- Ah Ah Ah
- ah ah ah
- Ah-Ah-Ah
- Ah-h-h
- All right, all right, all right
- Anaphora
- Antimetabole
- Archaic
- Baby talk
- Biblical
- Call and response
- Contemporary slang
- eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- Ellipsis
- Foreign accent / dialect
- Foreign language
- Fragments
- French
- German
- Grammatically incorrect
- Grandiloquence
- Ha ha ha
- Hah
- Haw haw
- Haw haw haw
- Hee hee hee
- Heh heh heh
- Hooooooooo
- Hymn
- Indian
- Interjection
- Italian
- Latin phrase
- Legal definitions
- Misspelling
- new item
- no no
- Oh Oh Oh Oh
- Profanity
- Satire
- Shhhh
- Slang, military
- snicksnicksnick...
- Spanish
- WhoOoooo
- WhoOooooooooooooooo
- Yah-yah-yah
- yes Yes Yes yes
- YIPPPEEE
Sibling Terms
Tagged Events
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: Bodily›Playing music | Bodily›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Language›Grammatically incorrect
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype | Region›The South | War›Death | War›Women
Aesthetics: Language›Slang, military
Environment: Auditory›Combat sounds | Public›Cafe
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Wine | War›Aerial combat | War›Women
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Uniform
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gilbert and Sullivan | Language›French | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Food | War›Casualties of war | War›Demotion | War›Deployment | War›Military reassignment | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Futility
Aesthetics: Language›Slang, military
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | War›Casualties of war | War›Cost of war | War›Homefront | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Physical disability | Death | Objects›Parcel | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oklahoma | Language›Fragments | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Government›National authority | Government›Usurpation | Group Mentality›Political solidarity | History›Dispossessing Indians | History›Indian Removal | Identity, Cultural›National | Ritual›Dueling | War›Indian / Native American wars
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Social decline | Government›Governor
Themes and Motifs: Death›Eulogy | Memory›Forgetting | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Cultural Issues: Age›Agelessness
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Emotional›Shock | Mental›Accepting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Morals›Faith | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Physical›Waiting | Physical›Walking | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Briefcase | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Photograph | Philosophical›Existentialism
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Love | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Death›Response to | Objects›Tombstone | Philosophical›Existentialism
Aesthetics: Language›German | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming | Food›Gum | Law›Aviation | War›World War I
Environment: Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Aaahhhhhhh | Narrative›Parentheses
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›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Fever
Aesthetics: Language›Interjection
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Introspective | Emotional›Shame
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response
Actions: Communication›Spanish | Play›Betting | Work›Horse training
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Objects›Flower orchid
Aesthetics: Language›Spanish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Driving
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Romantic›Infidelity | Romantic›Multiple
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread
Themes and Motifs: Futility
Cultural Issues: Violence›Shooting | War›Glorification | War›Violence against civilians
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation | Slavery›Loyalty
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Profanity
Environment: Domestic Space›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Grief | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Hunting›Fox hunting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Language›Grammatically incorrect | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Olfactory›Tobacco | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Latin phrase
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Religion›Sacrilege | Ritual›Christmas gift game
Themes and Motifs: Money›Nickel coin
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Mammy-child
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Profanity
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage | Ritual›Initiation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-deer
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Drugs
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Sacrificial Animal | Language›Biblical
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Marital›Elopement | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›July
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Asking for money | Physical›Meddling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Law›Wedding license
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Language›Profanity
Environment: Place›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Flight | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Race›Indistinguishable
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Teacher-student | Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: 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›Plantation
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Deception | Movement›Riding | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Respectability | History›Dispossessing Indians | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Stranger | Exile›Driven away | Naming›Place name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Personal past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Social›Isolation
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Deception | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Gender›Gentleman | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal document | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus | Entertainment›Traveling show | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Separate spaces | Gender›Sexual double standard | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Propriety
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Moral›Prohibiting | Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Requesting | Violent›Homicide
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Law›Inheritance refusal | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Character›Pride | Death›Murder | Determinism›Fated | Determinism›Lack of choice | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Objects›Corpse | Past›Past in present | Past›Traumatic | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Dysfunctional | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Wedding | Romantic›Death | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Anaphora | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Summary | Style›List | Tone›Elegiac
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Refusal | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Economy›Poverty | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›War | Prejudice›Racism | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Death›Of parent | Morals›Injustice | Objects›Sword | Values›Courage | Values›Family honor | Values›Honor | Values›Valor
Relationships: Familial›Exigent circumstances | Familial›Orphan | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Anaphora | Language›Biblical | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Repetition | Style›List | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Fire | Tone›Apocalyptic | Tone›Ironic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Inexperience | Time›Permanence
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Story-telling›Audience response
Environment: Auditory›Sound of drums | Otherworldly›Earth / the world
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Threads | Language›French
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Ethnicity›Language barrier
Aesthetics: Language | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Education›Harvard | History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Vengeful | Emotional›Vindictive | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Spinsterhood | Gender›Women | Religion›Presbyterian
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-righteousness | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Otherworldly | Time of Day›Midday | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Coldness | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Insight | Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Invitation | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Race›Using a Negro as messenger
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Withholding | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Paternity | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Animals›Cows | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Objects›Toys | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self | Sexuality›Fantasy | Sexuality›Incest
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness
Aesthetics: Language›yes Yes Yes yes
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Language›yes Yes Yes yes
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ahenobarbus | Allusion, Mythical›Vestal | Language›Archaic
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male gaze | Sexuality›Experience
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Art›Poetry | Death | Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Archaic
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Delilah | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Antimetabole
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Art›African American music | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Language›Hymn | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›July
Actions: Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Race›Division
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Quietness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Reading aloud | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Aesthetics: Language›Misspelling
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: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Environment: Natural›Flowers | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Writing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Repetition
Actions: Communication›Sending mail
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Determination
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Actions: Play›Card playing | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Marksmanship
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Language›snicksnicksnick...
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Exodus | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Money›Silver dollar | Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Actions: Perceptual›Sensing the past
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Surprise | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Physical›Digging
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Stable | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Aesthetics: Language›Ellipsis | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
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›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
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Swearing | Interaction, Social›Civic discussion | Verbal›Cursing | Work›Postal worker
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Private›Courting
Cultural Issues: Education›College life | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Language›Contemporary slang
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Desire
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Alimentary | Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Cooking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Aesthetics: Language›Baby talk | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Aesthetics: Language›eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | Law›Lawsuit | Law›Trial
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Auditory›Confused din
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injury
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Language›Legal definitions
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing | Economic›Rationalization | Work›Shodding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Body›Face | Objects›Coal oil
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›And nationality | Gender›Gentleman | History›European Revolutions of 1848 | Race›Aryan | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Art›And civilization
Actions: Economic›Shopping | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Verbal›Calling by name | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Tie
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Clothes›Uniform | Economy›Economic speculation
Cultural Issues: History›Pre-World War II issues
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | Modernity›Modernist style
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village | Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Language›All right, all right, all right
Actions: Communication›Language barriers
Cultural Issues: Economy›Labor unions | Government›Depression-era programs | History›Russian Revolution | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roosevelt, Franklin D. | Language›Foreign language
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Love | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human experience | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Writing
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation
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
Environment: Natural›Sea / Ocean
Cultural Issues: Religion›Revelation | War›World War I | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Vision
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Miscegenation | Violence›Torture
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Byron Snopes' children | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Law›Abuse of office | Violence›By police | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Character›Ambitious
Relationships: Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Violence›Ambush
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Government›Welfare | History›Post-war prosperity | Politics›Liberal | Progress›Consumerism | Progress›Racialized | Sexuality›Appearance of | Sexuality›Female | War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Language›Italian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Education›School vs life | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | War›Veterans
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Aesthetics: Language›Biblical | Language›Foreign language | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Education›Informal | Progress›Infrastructure
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Dining room
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Olfactory›Food | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Banishment | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Gamecock | Animals›Horses | Animals›Race horse | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Themes and Motifs: Values›Good conduct
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Contemporary slang
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Race horse | Objects›Car | Objects›Gold tooth
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Backyard | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Saloon | Public›Sidewalk | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Murmur | Olfactory›Urine | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Husbandry | Progress›Infrastructure | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Values›Virtue
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Olfactory›Alcohol | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Teetotaling | Clothes›Immodest female clothing | Politics›Republican | Religion›Chistian Scientist | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Attic | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Moral›Blackmail | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Verbal›Storytelling
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: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Defiance | Moral›Reform | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Whispering
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
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: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Sexual Harassment | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry | Education›Informal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Ether | Alcohol›Laws | Clothes›Dirty | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Institutional›Doctor-patient
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Language›Haw haw haw
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Actions: Emotional›Love | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Reform | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Gender›Separate spaces | Labor›Prostitution | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wedding ring | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Socks | Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Naming›Alias | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Place›Hotel
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Vengeful
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Entertainment›Horse race | Violence›Rape
Aesthetics: Language›Haw haw | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Ladies parlor | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Alias | Values›Refinement
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Paddock
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Horses | Objects›Gold tooth
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Race›Solidarity | Race›Stereotype cannibalism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hardwick, Tennessee | Language›Profanity
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Language›Hee hee hee
Environment: Domestic Space›Upstairs | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Shouting | Work›Washing clothes
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Hee hee hee | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Race›Naming
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Hee hee hee
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Education›Illiteracy
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Gallery
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Traditions
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Language›Hee hee hee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Race›Segregation
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Language›Hee hee hee
Actions: Communication›Telegraph
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Inferiority
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Equality | Class›Gentility | Government›Governor | Religion›Sin | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Morality | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Figures of Speech›Poisoned | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Reassurance | Emotional›Shame | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Courting | Moral›Deception | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Values›Honor | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Inferiority | Emotional›Joy | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Selfishness | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Blood | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Sexual double standard | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Psalms | Allusion, Biblical›Valley of the shadow of death | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Style›Long sentence | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Auditory›Whistle | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Noon
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Language›Fragments
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Lunch
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Body›Brain / mind | Body›Stomach/belly | Chaos/Order›Confusion | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time
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
Themes and Motifs: Body›Arm | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Apple tree | Objects›Bed | Objects›Curtains | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
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
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Natural›River | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Physical›Meddling | Physical›Protection | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Cousin | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Literary›Antony and Cleopatra | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Gods | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | 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
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Apple tree
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Lust | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Fecundity / lushness | Natural›Trees | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall | Weather›Coolness
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Objects›Basket | Objects›Fence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Dog barking | Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Voices
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Train sound | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Otherworldly›Earth / the world | Place›Road | Place›Rural | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Infinity | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Pencil | Figures of Speech›Stencil | Language›Fragments
Themes and Motifs: Character›Blackguard
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Gender›Reproduction | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Metaphysics | Philosophical›Progenitive / Self-reproductive | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" | Diction›Neologism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Year›August | Weather
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Nostalgia | Emotional›Sadness | Perceptual›Familiarity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Preparing for death | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Philosophical›Tedious / tedium | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Future | Death›Killing oneself slowly | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital | Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Mississippi | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Fatness / obesity
Relationships: Commercial›Doctor-patient
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Environment: Atmospheric›Full moon | Atmospheric›Harvest moon | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Otherworldly›Moon / Lunar | Time of Year›Lunar month / cycle
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Lust | Interaction, Social›Concealment
Cultural Issues: Gender›Body | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Menstruation / menstrual cycle | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Sexuality›Birth control | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hips | Body›Pregnancy | Body›Thighs | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Sexual smells | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Crying
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
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: Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Barn | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Movement›Running away | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Learning about
Relationships: Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual
Cultural Issues: Gender›Dirty girl
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Auditory›Rodent sounds | Domestic Space›Barn | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Physical›Dancing | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Holding | Physical›Lifting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Orgasm
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Dancing | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Dress | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic | Sexual
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Hogwallow | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Jumping | Physical›Rolling / wallowing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Shirt | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Pneumonia | Sexuality›Learning about
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic | Sexual
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Water | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Listening | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Domestic Space›Hogwallow | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Sweetness | Perceptual›Tasting | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Touching | Physical›Turning away | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Face | Body›Fingers | Body›Legs | Body›Lips | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Freudian | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Stove
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: Economic›Getting a receipt | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Coldness | Emotional›Impatience | Interaction, Private›Courting | Legal›Dismissing a case | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Demanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Law›Corruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Ethnic slur | Language›Profanity
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Trees | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Stone wall | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Laughing | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Touching | Physical›Wave / waving | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Chatter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Bread | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Natural›Sky | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Moral›Punishment | Moral›Purification | Physical›Burning | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Pointing | Physical›Starting over
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Class consciousness | Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Orgasm | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Responsibility | Death›Afterlife | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Luke | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Literary›Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | Figures of Speech›Affirmation | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Figures of Speech›Locked | Figures of Speech›Wild breath | Language›Fragments | Language›yes Yes Yes yes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring | Verbal›Joking
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Gender›Female body
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Language›Fragments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Winking | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat cap | Clothes›Motoring clothes | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Male body | Gender›Masculinity | War›U.S. Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Boat | Objects›Oars
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Social›Adversarial
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Winking | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Male body | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Oars | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Othello | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Abduction myths | Allusion, Mythical›Euboeleus / Eubuleus | Allusion, Mythical›Persephone | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Coupled | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Swine | Language›Fragments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Lust | Moral›Confession | Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Verbal›Responding
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Values›Evil | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Sexual
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Light | Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Heartbeat | Auditory›Insect sounds | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Creek | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›Sand | Natural›Sky | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Heart beating | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Lying | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Starting over | Physical›Touching | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Skirt | Clothes›Wet clothes | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Insects crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Body›Knee | Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Objects›Fence | Objects›Willow tree | Objects›knife | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Romantic›Sexual | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Island of silence | Figures of Speech›Mirror | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›no no | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Cleansing power of water | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Cultural Issues: Sexuality
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Gasoline
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Peace | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Watch
Environment: Natural›Cavern / Grotto
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Communication›Marriage announcement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Community›Wedding | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Peace
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Violent›Threatening | Violent›Whipping
Relationships: Familial›Physical discipline | Familial›Uncle-niece | Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Letter | Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Scheming | Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Auditory›Cars passing
Cultural Issues: Religion›African American
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Figures of Speech›Affirmation | Language›Call and response
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Clock | Objects›Stove | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Moral›Confession | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flowers Dogwood | Objects›Flowers Milkweed | Objects›Flowers Roses | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Marriage announcement | Movement›Running | Verbal›Announcing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flowers Roses | Objects›Mirror | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Sadness | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Taunt | Verbal›Teasing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Gender›Women | Region›The South | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Like death | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Philosophical›Nihilism | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship | Social›Adversarial | Social›Homoerotic
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Allusion, Historical›Saint Francis | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Clock 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: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Undressing | Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Vest | Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flowers Roses | Objects›Mirror | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Figures of Speech›Armor | Figures of Speech›Cloud | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Mental›Learning | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Condition of heaviness | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Education›Being well read / erudite | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Apartment | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Natural›River | Public›Chapel | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Emotional›Stubbornness | Moral›Condoning | Moral›Forgiveness | Movement›Boat | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›noblesse-oblige | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Gender›Lady | Region›The South | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Character›Regal | Naming›French noble names | Naming›Long name | Time›Return to present time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cambridge, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Mason and Dixon Line | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Khaki | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Silk | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Description›Color blue | Description›Color bronze | Description›Color brown | Diction›Misogynistic wording | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, straw
Themes and Motifs: Time›Return to present time
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Camphor | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Seduction | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Moral›Deception | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Punning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Pretension | Education›Harvard | Gender›Femininity | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Car | Objects›Honeysuckle | Objects›Trunk | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shirt | Education›Being well read / erudite | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Objects›Bricks | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Moral›Deception | Physical›Saluting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Education›Graduation | Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race›Uncle Tom | Ritual›Holiday | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R. | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Community›Columbus Day | Community›Parade | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Luggage | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black | Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Princeton University | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | Allusion, Literary›Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Allusion, Literary›Uncle Tom's Cabin | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Reproduction | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs | Animals›Insects lice | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Uncertain relationship | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | Crime›Breaking and entering | Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Federal laws and regulations
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Communal narrative
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Grammatically incorrect
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | Technology›Typewriter
Aesthetics: Language›German | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›May
Actions: Communication›Addressing for mail delivery | Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Sadness | Physical›Burning
Aesthetics: Language›German | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Dress | Food›Coffee | Mass Media›Advertising | Mass Media›Magazines
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Believing | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes | Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Education›College | Education›Female education
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Grammatically incorrect
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement | Economy›Banking | Law›Corruption
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Commercial›Rivalry | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language›French | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Morals›Hypocrisy
Aesthetics: Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Sexuality›Attractiveness
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
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
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War consequences | War›Displacement
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Profanity
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver | Objects›Silverware | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Domestic Space›Log yard
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Oh Oh Oh Oh
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Drawing room | Olfactory›Flowers
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Montgomery, Alabama | Language›Profanity
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Interaction, Social›Voting | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Irony
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Language›Profanity
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity
Cultural Issues: War›Glorification | War›Union Army | War›Violence against civilians
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Profanity
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