Cultural Issues: Age
Child Terms
Sibling Terms
- Agriculture
- Alcohol
- Class
- Clothes
- Crime
- Cultural Identity
- Economy
- Education
- Entertainment
- Ethnicity
- Food
- Gender
- Global
- Government
- Group Mentality
- Health and Illness
- History
- Hunting and Fishing
- Identity, Cultural
- Identity, Personal
- Labor
- Land-Use
- Law
- Mass Media
- Materialism
- Migration
- Modernity
- Nationality
- Politics
- Prejudice
- Progress
- Race
- Region
- Religion
- Ritual
- Segregation
- Sexuality
- Slavery
- Supernatural
- Technology
- Violence
- War
Tagged Events
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death | Values›Bad conduct
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Grayness | Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Sunset
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray
Actions: Verbal›Social criticism
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ethnicity›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Soul / Spirit
Actions: Interaction, Social›Competition | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage | Gender›Male rivalry | Ritual
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Old days | Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Maturing | Race›Mixed race | Race›Racial identity
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | History›Founding fathers
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Old days
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Government›Right of secession
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Cultural Issues: Age | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Gender›Body | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Hair | Death
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›December
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Age›Maturing | Government›Generational reform | Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Armistice Day | Narrative›Temporal projection
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Economy›Property
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age | Alcohol›Manhood | Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Sympathy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Matthew | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Place›Frontier | Public›Pioneer settlement
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Clothes›Tartan | History›American Revolution | War›American Revolution | War›Jacobite Rebellion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Exile›Post-war
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Social decline | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile›Dispossession
Actions: Communication›Censorship | Emotional›Worry
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Entertainment›Popular literature
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Public›Store
Actions: Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Cultural Issues: Age›Agelessness | Age›Spinsterhood | Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Class›Social decline | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Popular magazines
Cultural Issues: Age›Agelessness
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Olfactory›Smelling black
Actions: Perceptual›Blurring
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Health and Illness›Loss of eyesight | Race›Segregated space | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Meaning›Interpretation
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hope | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Maturity | Money | Values›Greed
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Politics›Campaigning | Politics›Election
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Progress›Social | War›As educational
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Social›Social organizations
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Interaction, Private›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Themes and Motifs: Character›Persistence | Memory›Remembering | Time›Permanence
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Environment: Public›Restaurant
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Milk | Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Law›Aviation | Law›Legal document
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Alcohol›Abstinence | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Health and Illness›Smoking habit | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Symbolism›Blood
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Middle
Themes and Motifs: Body›Appearance-plain
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Intergenerational›Female
Aesthetics: Narrative›Indeterminacy
Actions: Interaction, Social›Peer group
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Dress | Mass Media›Movies | Sexuality›Unattractiveness
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Mass Media›Fantasy | Mass Media›Movies
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Texts›Case file
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Place›Country vs city | Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›Breaking and entering
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Penitentiary | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Crime›Manslaughter
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Jailbreak | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Agriculture›Market gardening | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Shabby | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Execution | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Companions
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
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Race›Subverting a stereotype
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Emotional›Fascination | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Planning | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Age›Youth vs age
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Clothes›Uniform | War›World War II
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | History›Battle of Britain | War›Defeat | War›Royal Air Force
Actions: Military›Enlistment
Cultural Issues: Age›War | War›Glorification | War›Royal Air Force
Actions: Communication›Telephone
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Entertainment›Movies | Law›Police
Actions: Communication›Spanish
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Power of literature
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Cervantes, Miguel de | Allusion, Literary›Don Quixote
Actions: Legal›Charge/accuse | Military›Enlistment | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | War›Draft | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Going to war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bookishness
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | War›Cost of war
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Education›College
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Objects›Engagement ring
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Education›College
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters | Texts›Translation
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Verbal›Bless | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Story-telling›Collaborative | Time›Awareness of time
Environment: Place›Memphis | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Age›Youth | Alcohol›Whiskey | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Age›Maturing
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Perceptual›Dowsing | Physical›Digging | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Folk customs
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Sexuality›Appearance of
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Place›Playground
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Environment: Natural›Woods | Place›Lonelier parts of town
Actions: Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Sexuality›Appearance of | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Time›Long passage of time
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Agriculture›Household gardening | Economy›Poverty
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Hunting›Slave hunting
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Hearth | Domestic Space›Yard
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Hallucinating | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Gender›War | War›Defeat | War›Homefront | War›Scorched-earth policy | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Men | Absence/Loss›War | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Handwriting | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›November
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Inheritance | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Place›Jefferson | Time of Year›November
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Migration›Big Bottom | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Community›Tradition | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Indian-black | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Cooking | Hunting›And race | Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Alcohol›Whiskey | Food›Breakfast | Food›Brunswick stew | Gender›All-male space | Hunting and Fishing›Annual | Hunting and Fishing›Marksmanship | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Raccoon | Animals›Squirrel | Animals›Turkey | Animals›Wildcats | Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Searching
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Recurring Tropes›Killing first deer/marked with blood
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Symbolism›Blood
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Gender›Masculinity | Ritual›Initiation
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
Environment: Place›Outlaw country | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Race›Black family working for white | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Emotional›Vindictive
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Agriculture›Farming life | Law›Eye for an eye | Law›Grand jury | Law›Hearing | Law›Indictment | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Justice | Morals›Responsibility | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Poverty | Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Work›Chopping wood
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Age›Youth | Nationality›Japanese | War›Patriotism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Home | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Movement›Running away
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Morals
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Conflict | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Narrative›First-person passim | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Food›Ice-cream | Health and Illness›Drugs
Themes and Motifs: Past›Personal past
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Entertainment›Baseball | Food›Ice-cream | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Blind | Health and Illness›Drugs
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Drugs | Religion›Preacher / Minister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Conflict
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Race›Racial consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›White-black | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Guilt | Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Car | Physical›Holding
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Guilt | Moral›Aiding and abetting | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Haunted by past | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Snake | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Sensory experience | Body›Womb | Memory›Forgetting | Psychological›Will to endure | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Transsexuality | Sexuality›Puberty
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Chaos/Order›Creation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Love
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Crime›Penalty for | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Voice
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Relationships: Civic›child protection
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Age›Premature aging | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Glove
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Sword
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Inexperience | Time›Permanence
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Orphan
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes›Bonnet
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mask
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes | Race›Colorism | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Race | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Supernatural›Haunted house
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dirty
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Shrewdness | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Morality | Time›Running out
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Themes and Motifs: Memory | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Time›Lost time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Actions: Emotional›Hate | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Miscegenation | War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Interracial | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Meaning›Mystery | Past
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Bluebeard | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Chaos/Order | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›Confined living quarters
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Health and Illness›Obesity
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Supernatural›Telepathy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Desert island | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Actions: Military›Enlistment
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Values›Providence
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Bull Run
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Going to war
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Priapus | Figures of Speech›Sacrifice | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Character›Duty | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Courage | Values›Determination | Values›Sacrifice
Aesthetics: Tone›Apocalyptic
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Health and Illness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Balance | Character›Responsibility
Relationships: Familial›Favoritism | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Natural›River
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Objects›Fish
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Animals›Buzzards | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Toys
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Hunting and Fishing
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Emotional›Exhaustion | Interaction, Private›Parenting
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Rage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Accusatory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Memory›Collective memory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
Relationships: Familial›Childlessness | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Declasse | Modernity›Speed | Slavery›Nostalgia | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Hunting | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Uniform | Health and Illness›Blind | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: smell | Technology›Automobile
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Grave
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Communication›Silence | Play›Tennis | Work›Glassblowing
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Gender›Idealization | War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Alcohol | Education›Oxford | Education›Rhodes Scholar | Religion›Episcopal
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Romantic›Sexual
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Military›Escape | Movement›Limping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Entertainment›Movies
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Flight
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Violence›Killing animal
Actions: Hunting›Rabbit hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Interracial›Companions
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Sexuality›Sensuality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Entertainment›Circus | Health and Illness›Nausea
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Tigers | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Evolution
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | War›As metaphor | War›Cost of war
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Clothes›Military | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›War | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Fool|Foolishness
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Friendship›Childhood friends | Interracial›Mammy-child
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Gender›Masculinity | Government›Usurpation | Race›Etiquette | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Genealogy | Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Childhood friends
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Symbolism›Fire
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Agriculture›Household gardening | Economy›Poverty
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Actions: Hunting›Rabbit hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage | Gender›All-male space | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Relationships: Social›Mentorship
Relationships: Intergenerational›Tutor-student | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Gender›Masculinity | Hunting and Fishing›Annual
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Gender›Masculinity | Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Character›Innocence
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Hunting›Breaking camp
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-deer
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages | Narrative›Epiphany
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Alcohol›Manhood | Economy›Property | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Named bear Ben
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Priam
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Killing first deer/marked with blood
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Ritual›Birthday
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Ledger
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Slave trading
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Inheritance›Property | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Inheritance›Property
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Caste system | Clothes›Hunting clothes | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Time›Past
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Alcohol›Whiskey | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Memory›Remembering | Past›Grander than present | Recurring Tropes›Killing first deer/marked with blood | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Past›Historical wrong
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Land-Use›Ownership | Nationality›Old vs New World | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Transcended | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Segregation›Marriage | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Inheritance›Property | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Filthy lucre | Naming›And caste | Objects›Hunting horn | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Texts›Case file
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›And race | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Jailbreak
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Teaching | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Crime›Murder | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Trial | Mass Media›Newspaper | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Determinism›Genetic
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Bodily›Childbirth
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Wrong name | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Engrave | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Environment: Auditory›Footsteps | Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›House | Time of Year›August | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Natural›Delta | Place›Indian mound | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Money›Social force
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Moonshine
Environment: Public›Lavatory | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Alcohol›Beer | Alcohol›Gin | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shoes | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Perverse | Sexuality›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Communication›Censorship | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Health and Illness›Developmental problems | Ritual›Birthday | Sexuality›Impotence
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Religion›camp meeting | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Economy›Rural sales
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | History›Cold War | War›Spanish American War | War›World War I | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Sexuality›Puberty
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith
Actions: Emotional›Frustration
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Helen | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Milton, John | Allusion, Literary›Spenser, Edmund
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Gender›And marriage | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Progress›Road traffic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Government›Congress | History›Civil Rights legislation | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Integration | Race›Negro-lover | Region›The South | War›Military awards
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi Delta
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Agriculture›Corn | Class›Caste system | Economy›Wealth | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Law›Grand jury | Law›Legal document | Law›Sheriff | Progress›Electrification
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Aesthetics: Language›Biblical | Language›Foreign language | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Hay-making | Verbal›Denial
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Crickets | Animals›Grasshoppers | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Crime›Prostitution | Law›Chain gang | Sexuality›Pornography | War›Noncombatant
Themes and Motifs: Money›Money order
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Romantic›Infidelity
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Hunting and Fishing›Marksmanship | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Hunting›Fishing | Mental›Contemplation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Atmospheric›Crowded | Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage | Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Gender›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed | Death›Response to
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Revision
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Crime›Prostitution
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp | Natural›Hills | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Crib / Cradle | Objects›Fire | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Sensing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Mouth | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: 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: Natural›Creek | Public›Golf course
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Searching | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Age | Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Memory›Remembering | Money›Lost | Objects›Candle | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Actions: Bodily›Squatting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Undressing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Clothes›Undressing | Education›Primary school | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Race›Racial consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Disbelief | Mental›Misunderstanding | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration