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"A Bear Hunt", 64 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Unemployment
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Great Depression
"A Justice", 343 (Event)
Environment: Place›Farm | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Movement›Surrey
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
"A Justice", 345 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Steamboat | Play›Gambling | Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Ruthless | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Reported narration passim in section | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"A Justice", 347 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Renaming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Native American | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
"A Justice", 348 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Food›Candy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Naming›Indian name
"A Justice", 349 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Class›Power
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Ruthless
"A Justice", 349 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Murder | Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Class›Power
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Ruthless
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
"A Point of Law", 221 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court
Actions: Movement›Crossing | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Power | Class›Professional | Economy›Wealth | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Truck | Objects›Wagon
"A Rose for Emily", 120 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
"A Rose for Emily", 120 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Women | Government›Generational reform | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic
"A Rose for Emily", 121 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Men vs women | Government›Generational reform | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Romantic
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
"A Rose for Emily", 123 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Psychological›Madness
"A Rose for Emily", 123 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Pity | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Death | Objects›Corpse | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative
"A Rose for Emily", 124 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Reproduction | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"A Rose for Emily", 125 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Economic›Purchase
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Body | Law›Regulation | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Appearance›Complexion | Objects›Poison
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Flag
"A Rose for Emily", 125 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Values›Dignity
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"A Rose for Emily", 127 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Purchase
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes | Gender›Clothing | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Marital›Forced
"Ad Astra", 415 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Homosocial rivalry
"Ad Astra", 415 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite
"All the Dead Pilots", 515 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | War›Aerial combat | War›Military awards | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Amiens, France | Allusion, Historical›Cambrai
"Appendix: Compson", 325 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Scotland | Allusion, Historical›Bonaparte, Napoleon | Figures of Speech›King and/or queen | Language›Fragments | Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom" | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
"Appendix: Compson", 326 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Class›Homelessness | Ethnicity›Native American | History›Indian Removal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Hearse | Exile›Dispossession | Exile›Indian Removal
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Government›Governor | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Home | Naming›Place name | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Scotland | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Culloden Moor
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Banking | History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Physical›Camping
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tallahatchie River
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Work›Lawyering
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Social decline | Government›Governor
Themes and Motifs: Death›Eulogy | Memory›Forgetting | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Boone, Daniel | Allusion, Literary›Cataline / Catiline | Allusion, Literary›Classical rhetoric | Allusion, Literary›Horace | Allusion, Literary›Livy | Allusion, Literary›Robinson Crusoe | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Language›Satire
"Appendix: Compson", 330 (Event)
Environment: Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Recurring Episodes›Caddy's wedding | Recurring Episodes›Compsons sell pasture | Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide
"Appendix: Compson", 330 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital | Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Mississippi
"Appendix: Compson", 333 (Event)
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
"Appendix: Compson", 338 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Saving money | Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social decline | Education›Trade school | Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dysfunctional | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal discontinuity | Recurring Episodes›Benjy accosts schoolgirl | Recurring Episodes›Benjy castrated | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"By the People", 131 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Silver Shirts | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Opportunism
Relationships: Social›Social organizations
"By the People", 138 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Scoundrel | Story-telling›Explaining
"By the People", 138 (Event)
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment
Cultural Issues: Class›Power
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
"By the People", 86 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space | Place›Houses
Actions: Economic›Selling
Cultural Issues: Class›Middle | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Gender›Women
"By the People", 86 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel
Actions: Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Class›Middle | Gender›All-male space
Themes and Motifs: Values›Virtue
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
"By the People", 88 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Predicting
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Politics›Democracy | Politics›Election
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
"By the People", 88 (Event)
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Class›Snopesism | Class›Town v. country/farm | Politics
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
"Centaur in Brass", 150 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Restauranteer
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
"Dry September", 173 (Event)
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
"Dry September", 174 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Peer group
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Thinness | Character›Innocence | Community›Social life
Aesthetics: Style›Neologism
"Hair", 138 (Event)
Actions: Work›Barbering
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"Hand upon the Waters", 72 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Law›Inquest | Law›Testimony
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Red necks | Death›Corpse | Texts›Death certificate
"Knight's Gambit", 158 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›New car
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
"Knight's Gambit", 161 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
"Knight's Gambit", 162 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Community›Stranger | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
"Knight's Gambit", 165 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
"Knight's Gambit", 168 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
"Knight's Gambit", 192 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Interaction, Social›Confrontation
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Gender›Female stereotype
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement | Romantic›Multiple
Aesthetics: Diction›Accent
"Monk", 41 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Defending
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Law›Alienating
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
"Monk", 61 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 674 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | War›Union Army
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 674 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Prejudice›Socio-economic | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 675 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Bodily›Running | Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 684 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Moral›Stealing
Cultural Issues: Class | War›Confederate Army | War›Mercenary | War›Spoils
Themes and Motifs: Values›Honor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 688 (Event)
Environment: Public›Supply house
Actions: Bodily›Eating
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 691 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Library
Actions: Legal›Arrest | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Gender›Southern woman | War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Accent
"Race at Morning", 296 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
"Race at Morning", 308 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty
Relationships: Familial›Surrogate
"Race at Morning", 309 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Education›Need to be educated | Identity, Cultural›Mankind | Progress›Education
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
"Raid", 37 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | War›Homefront
"Raid", 38 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Shall Not Perish", 103 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Shall Not Perish", 104 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Clothes›Sunday shoes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Satchel
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›San Francisco | Diction›Racist term
"Shall Not Perish", 106 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Money›Lacking
"Shall Not Perish", 106 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Flag | Objects›Medal | Objects›Musical instrument | Objects›Photograph | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Shall Not Perish", 109 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Character›Courteous | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Smoke", 17 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Education›Harvard | Law›County attorney
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Einstein, Albert
"Smoke", 4 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Spousal
"Spotted Horses", 165 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
"Spotted Horses", 166 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Economy›Predatory practices
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
"Spotted Horses", 166 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Flight
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
"Spotted Horses", 168 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Relationships: Marital›Abusive
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
"Spotted Horses", 171 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Gender›Chivalry
Relationships: Marital›Abusive
"Spotted Horses", 180 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
"Spotted Horses", 180 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Morals›Injustice
"The Old People", 203 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cabin | Place›Farm | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Work›Blacksmith | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Class›Blood | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Metaphorical | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Relationships: Hierarchical | Interracial›Indian-white
"The Tall Men", 46 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Government›As source of money | Identity, Cultural›Rural | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tobacco
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
"The Tall Men", 48 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
"The Unvanquished", 74 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
"The Unvanquished", 86 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-reliance | Money›Cash | Texts›Ledger
"The Unvanquished", 93 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Believing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Character›Greed
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Narrative›Narrative anomaly
"There Was a Queen", 729 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Clothes›Shoes | Food›Race | Mass Media›Magazines
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
"There Was a Queen", 731 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Symbolism›Blood
"There Was a Queen", 734 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Relationships: Marital›Entrapment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Narcissa marries Bayard
"There Was a Queen", 734 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash
Themes and Motifs: Values›Honor
Relationships: Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
"There Was a Queen", 736 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Recoiling | Emotional›Anger
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Ethnicity›Jewish | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Identity, Cultural›South vs North
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Watch
"Tomorrow", 109 (Event)
Environment: Place›Memphis | Public›Highway
Actions: Emotional›Love | Movement›Driving | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Wealth | Education›Mentorship
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs | Body›Flesh | Memory | Objects›Car | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Shakespeare
"Tomorrow", 90 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend | Place›Rural
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim
"Tomorrow", 94 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Movement›Driving
Cultural Issues: Class›Working | Law›Testimony
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
"Uncle Willy", 226 (Event)
Environment: Public›Drugstore
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
"Vendee", 110 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
"Vendee", 97 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Eulogy | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
"Wash", 536 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Economy›Property | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular
"Wash", 536 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Objects›Scythe | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
"Wash", 546 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Anticipation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 10 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Movement›Riding | Verbal›Insulting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Economy›Property | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›As character | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Character›Swagger | Morals›Hypocrisy | Past›Discovering it | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Engagement | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Narrative›Withholding | Tone›Sarcastic
Absalom, Absalom!, 10 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Anaphora
Absalom, Absalom!, 107 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Dehumanization
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Values›Justice
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 107 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Contempt
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 108 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Plantation
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 11 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Mask | Figures of Speech›Negation | Language›Anaphora
Absalom, Absalom!, 11 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Public›Road
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Riding | Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Play›Gambling | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Birthright | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Consumption | Economy›Gambling | Identity, Personal›Background | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Character›Opportunism | Character›Recklessness | Determinism›Vs human agency | Money›As motive | Money›Ill-gotten | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses
Absalom, Absalom!, 12 (Event)
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
Absalom, Absalom!, 13 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Church | Public›Street
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Moral›Judgmental | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Respectability | Crime›Gambling | Law›Wedding license | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Determinism›Fated | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Meaning | Past›Historical wrong | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Interpretation›Theodicy | Language›Anaphora
Absalom, Absalom!, 136 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Requesting | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 14 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Middle
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause
Absalom, Absalom!, 144 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Absalom, Absalom!, 145 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Absalom, Absalom!, 147 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Naming›And caste
Aesthetics: Diction›Derogatory socio-economic term
Absalom, Absalom!, 147 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Derogatory socio-economic term | Diction›Racist term
Absalom, Absalom!, 148 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Dragon's teeth | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 148 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | Health and Illness›Malaria
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Status, low
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Demijohn | Objects›Hammock | Past›Old days
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Fury
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Objects›Jug
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Washington, D.C. | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Clothes›Driving gear | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Redemption | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Crowd | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Picture/image | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Absalom, Absalom!, 150 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 150 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Work
Cultural Issues: Class | War›Civil War | War›Going to war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Values›Loyalty | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 151 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Death | Objects›Horsewhip
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Perspective
Absalom, Absalom!, 152 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Class
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Psychological›Peace | Supernatural›Eternity
Relationships: Friendship | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 158 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Class | Clothes›Mourning | Race
Absalom, Absalom!, 179 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Class consciousness | Economy›Property | Economy›Wealth
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 181 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Drinking | Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 183 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Absalom, Absalom!, 184 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Wealth | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 186 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Movement›Walking | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 188 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Cave
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 19 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Mental›Believing | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Moral›Judgmental | Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Gender›Work
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Character›Responsibility | Home›Estranged | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Obligation | Marital›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Revision | Narrative›Summary
Absalom, Absalom!, 190 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Domestic›Washing | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Labor›Menial | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 194 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Learning | Verbal›Reading aloud
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Class›Planter vs farmer | Economy›Wealth | Education
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-reliance | Texts
Absalom, Absalom!, 20 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Sneaking | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Religion›Providence | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Determinism›Fated | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Reported narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 20 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Stable | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Running | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Wrestling | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Vowing | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Maternal impulse | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Interracial violence | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Description›Grotesque | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 210 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Constitutive moment | Meaning›Interpretation of symbol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out
Absalom, Absalom!, 212 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Deception | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Race›Mixed race
Absalom, Absalom!, 225 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Race | Religion›Apotheosis | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 227 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Faith
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Absalom, Absalom!, 228 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Sewing
Cultural Issues: Class
Absalom, Absalom!, 231 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Narrative›Gaps | Recurring Episodes›Wash kills Sutpen
Absalom, Absalom!, 248 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 25 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Hotel
Actions: Mental›Inquiry | Movement›Getting closer | Movement›Stopping | Perceptual›Investigating | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Crowding | Physical›Locking a door | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Reticence | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Social›Adversarial | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Narrative›Summary | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 25 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Paying | Mental›Learning | Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lacking | Money›Need for | Naming›Change over time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Environment: Place›Rural
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Record keeping | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Poverty | Economy›Property | Government›Secrecy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Community›Knowledge | Community›Secrecy | Money›Coin | Money›Gold | Money›Lacking
Relationships: Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 27 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Mud | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Language barriers | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Building structure | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Group Mentality›Community collective | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Alligators | Animals›Dogs | Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Local legends | Objects›Bricks | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Reconstructed
Absalom, Absalom!, 276 (Event)
Actions: Military›Retreat
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Region›The South | War›Civil War | War›Defeat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Atlanta | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Corinth | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Franklin | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical›Bertrand du Guesclin | Allusion, Historical›Richard I of England | Allusion, Historical›Roland of Roncesvalles
Absalom, Absalom!, 28 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Natural›Trees | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Perceptual›Familiarity
Cultural Issues: Class›Professional
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Absalom, Absalom!, 288 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Race | Region›The South | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Gettysburg | Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi | Allusion, Historical›Pickett's Charge | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh
Absalom, Absalom!, 29 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Hurried | Mental›Believing | Mental›Envisioning | Work›Architect | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Pretension | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Nationality›Foreigners
Themes and Motifs: Art›Artistic creation | Chaos/Order›Creation | Character›Artist | Character›Hubris | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Home›Dwelling | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Time›Duration of time
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Description›Grotesque | Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Reported narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 29 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Rural | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›All-male space | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Separate spaces | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 30 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sitting | Domestic›Camping | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Lending Money | Hunting›Deer hunting | Mental›Calculation | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Wrestling | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Economy›Dowry | Gender›All-male space | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Home›Improvements | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 31 (Event)
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Electricity | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 32 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Community›Gathering | Community›Opinion | Time›Routine | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
Absalom, Absalom!, 33 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Ox | Movement›Return | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Crime›Looting | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Creating an Other | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Politics›Public opinion | Religion›Godhead | Slavery›Imported
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Money›Loot | Money›Luxury | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Absalom, Absalom!, 34 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation | Public›Road | Time of Year›April
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Law›Sheriff
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Community›Posse | Community›Preserving order | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic | Institutional›Police-arrestee | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Anti-climax | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 34 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Believing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Movement›Stopping | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Talking | Work›Hotel employee
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Character›Power | Character›Ruthless | Character›Swagger | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›John L. Sullivan | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 35 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Place›Hotel | Public›Road | Public›Street | Public›Town Square
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Communication›Silence | Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Legal›Warrant | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Following | Movement›Horse | Movement›Procession | Movement›Riding | Movement›Stopping | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Community collective | Law›Warrant | Politics›Public opinion
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Character›Resolve | Character›Unknowable | Community›Opinion | Community›Posse | Objects›Basket | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Food and drink imagery | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Withholding | Style›Long sentence
Absalom, Absalom!, 36 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Public›Street | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Appearance›Surface | Character›Cautious | Character›Swagger | Community›Opinion | Past›Past in present | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Clay | Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Repetition
Absalom, Absalom!, 37 (Event)
Environment: Public›Church
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Economic›Investing | Interaction, Private›Coercion | Interaction, Social›Church | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Bailing out | Legal›Bonding
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Commerce | Law›Bail | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Values›Conscience | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Commercial›Business partners | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Creditor | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 37 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Interpretation | Time›Future | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Narrative›Argument
Absalom, Absalom!, 39 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Torch-light | Place›Tavern | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual›Wedding | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Marital›Wedding | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Fire
Absalom, Absalom!, 39 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Proud | Interaction, Private›Coercion | Legal›Release of prisoner
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bravery | Character›Pride | Character›Unknowable | Character›Vanity | Community›Opinion | Community›Wedding | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-son in law | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Withholding | Tone›Sarcastic
Absalom, Absalom!, 40 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Ambition
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Absalom, Absalom!, 40 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Learning | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Ambition | Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Ambitious | Character›Vanity | Determinism›Fated | Meaning›Mystery | Past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Tone›Overwrought
Absalom, Absalom!, 41 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Determinism›Lack of choice | Objects›Letter | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 46 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Hate | Mental›Knowing | Mental›Unaware | Verbal›Social criticism
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Middle age | Class›Respectability | Gender›Patriarchy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›In childbirth | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 49 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Vindictive | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
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
Absalom, Absalom!, 51 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Detachment | Emotional›Outrage
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance›Fatness / obesity | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Candelabra | Objects›Damask | Objects›Porcelain
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection
Absalom, Absalom!, 53 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Character›Regal | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Personification
Absalom, Absalom!, 56 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Economy›Wealth | Materialism›Status
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Stage manager | Figures of Speech›Woodpile
Absalom, Absalom!, 67 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Renounce
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Moth | Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 71 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 72 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Themes and Motifs: Values›Honor | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Thunderclap
Absalom, Absalom!, 76 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Clothes›Cloak | Clothes›Gown | Clothes›Hat | Gender›Cross-dress | Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Character›Provincialism | Character›Sophistication | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi | Allusion, Literary›Arabian Nights | Figures of Speech›Talisman
Absalom, Absalom!, 81 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Objet d'art | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Absalom, Absalom!, 84 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Traditions
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Absalom, Absalom!, 84 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Boat | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Values›Loyalty
Absalom, Absalom!, 9 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jefferson
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Gentleman's agreement | Movement›Riding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | Gender›Women as sacred | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Opinion | Community›Supportive | Morals›Honor | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Potential | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Repetition
Absalom, Absalom!, 9 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Moral›Judgmental | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Respectability | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Character›Naivety | Meaning›Misinterpretation | Psychological›Denial | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Parent-child | Romantic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›First-person | Tone›Sarcastic
Absalom, Absalom!, 99 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Status, low
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Demijohn
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Absalom, Absalom!, 99 (Event)
Environment: Place›Fishing camp
Actions: Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Hunting and Fishing | Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
As I Lay Dying, 11 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Rural poverty | Clothes›Shoes
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
As I Lay Dying, 110 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bridge | Time of Day›Dusk | Weather›Flood | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Labor | Land-Use›Agricultural | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Memory›Collective memory | Morals›Hypocrisy | Philosophical›Salvation
As I Lay Dying, 170 (Event)
Environment: Public›School
Actions: Domestic›Care | Interaction, Private›Courting | Interaction, Social›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Economy›Property
Relationships: Familial›Kinless | Familial›Kinship
As I Lay Dying, 198 (Event)
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Sympathy | Moral›Judgmental
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Gender›Menstruation / menstrual cycle | Gender›Sexual double standard | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Health and Illness›Abortion | Health and Illness›Quackery | Religion›Consolation | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Community›Stranger | Meaning›Paternity | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
As I Lay Dying, 203 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Street
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Medical treatment | Law›Marshal
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
As I Lay Dying, 215 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Curious | Emotional›Hope | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Train
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
As I Lay Dying, 226 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Mass Media›Telephone | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Burial | Death›Respect | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
As I Lay Dying, 229 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Objects›knife
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
As I Lay Dying, 241 (Event)
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Interaction, Private›Coercion | Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Moral›Exploitation | Moral›Fraud | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Abortion | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Medicine | Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
As I Lay Dying, 7 (Event)
Environment: Place›Bedroom
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Power
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Social›Neighbor
Flags in the Dust, 110 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Singing | Work›Gardening
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
Flags in the Dust, 132 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Equality | Health and Illness›Headache
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Personification
Flags in the Dust, 137 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Frogs | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Equality | Labor›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Geese
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Flags in the Dust, 140 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Insect sounds
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Equality | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Flags in the Dust, 160 (Event)
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Uniform | War›Peace | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Community›Populace | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Car | Objects›Monument | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Beauregard, P. G. T. | Allusion, Historical›Hinson, Jack | Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E.
Flags in the Dust, 166 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Abraham | Recurring Episodes›Flem reaches Jefferson
Flags in the Dust, 166 (Event)
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Government
Flags in the Dust, 166 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility
Relationships: Social›Snobbery
Flags in the Dust, 166 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Migration›Intraregional migration
Relationships: Social›Snobbery
Flags in the Dust, 178 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Snoring | Play›Sports Golf | Play›Tennis | Work›Lawyering
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Inheritance
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 20 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | War›Demotion | War›Draft
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris deposed
Flags in the Dust, 234 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Nightmare | Moral›Blackmail
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Flags in the Dust, 235 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Bodily›Staring | Emotional›Fear | Moral›Blackmail | Physical›Stalking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Objects›Train
Flags in the Dust, 24 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Tolerance | Verbal›Chatter | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Entertainment›Playing cards | Technology›Automobile
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 24 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Economic›Frugality
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Materialism›Status
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers
Flags in the Dust, 24 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Silk | Progress›New replacing old
Flags in the Dust, 245 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Reading | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Class›Professional | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Growth | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being on time / punctuality
Flags in the Dust, 69 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Command | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class | Prejudice›Racism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cats | Character›Pride
Relationships: Familial›Twins
Flags in the Dust, 7 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Identity, Personal›Soldier | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 83 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Character›Noisiness
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Flags in the Dust, 91 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sterile
Actions: Emotional›Coldness | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Class›Pretension | Class›Professional | Education›Being well read / erudite | Health and Illness›Growth | Health and Illness›Medical advice | Health and Illness›Obesity | Health and Illness›Quackery | Migration›Work
Themes and Motifs: Character›Assertive | Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Door | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile-mask
Go Down, Moses, 105 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Law›Inheritance refusal
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 106 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming | Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Go Down, Moses, 210 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 210 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Non-human›Attack | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 212 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 213 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Fatalism
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Go Down, Moses, 223 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›All-male space | Region›Hospitality
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Go Down, Moses, 223 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Identity, Personal›Hunter | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interspecies›Man-mule
Go Down, Moses, 235 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Breaking camp | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›All-male space | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal Dog | Death›Respect | Story-telling›Hunting
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 257 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
Go Down, Moses, 286 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Go Down, Moses, 301 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Hounds
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
Go Down, Moses, 359 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Burial | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Civic›Charity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Go Down, Moses, 44 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
Intruder in the Dust, 132 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Truck | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Intruder in the Dust, 155 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Objects›Gun | Objects›Shovel
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 176 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Sleeplessness | Emotional›Exhaustion | Movement›Car | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Intruder in the Dust, 191 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Racial spheres | Slavery›Metaphorical | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 23 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Suit
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Objects›Toothpick | Objects›Watch
Intruder in the Dust, 34 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Town v. country/farm | Crime›Bootlegging
Relationships: Familial›Cohesion | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Intruder in the Dust, 91 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Driving | Movement›Horse | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Division
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Light in August, 3 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Shoes
Themes and Motifs: Home | Memory
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Requiem for a Nun, 102 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Bodily›Smoking
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Education›Virginia | Gender›Chivalry | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term
Requiem for a Nun, 124 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Church | Place›Country club
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Partying | Interaction, Social›Peer group | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Sharing confidences
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Health and Illness›Hangover | Modernity›Interwar years | Religion›Catholicism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 33 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›Racism | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 35 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Growth of
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Requiem for a Nun, 50 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Sobriety | Class›Gentility
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 88 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Barksdale | Allusion, Historical›Claiborne | Allusion, Historical›Dickson | Allusion, Historical›Humphries | Allusion, Historical›Lamar | Allusion, Historical›McLaurin | Allusion, Historical›Prentiss | Metafictional›Merging history and fiction
Requiem for a Nun, 96 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Sanctuary, 111 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Sanctuary, 111 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Music | Time of Day›Saturday | Time of Year›May
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Entertainment›Music
Sanctuary, 128 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure
Sanctuary, 14 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Thursday
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Sanctuary, 161 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Class consciousness
Sanctuary, 172 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Train | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Searching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 177 (Event)
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Movement›Train | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 202 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Sanctuary, 203 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Gate
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Moral›Blackmail
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 207 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Prostitution | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Morals›Hypocrisy | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Sanctuary, 209 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Prostitution
Sanctuary, 209 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Sanctuary, 261 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Hypocrisy
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Sanctuary, 29 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Sanctuary, 291 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Numbness | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Law›Conviction | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Sanctuary, 297 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Taxi
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Gender›Chivalry | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 30 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Car | Movement›Driving
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Garment female
Sanctuary, 32 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Class consciousness | Education›College life
Sanctuary, 54 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 55 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Stuttering / stammering
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Education›College life
Sanctuary, 57 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Contempt | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Hat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Sanctuary, 58 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Emotional›Contempt
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
The Hamlet, 10 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | Economy›Poverty
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
The Hamlet, 146 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Precocious | Class›Power | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
The Hamlet, 149 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Declasse
The Hamlet, 153 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol
The Hamlet, 16 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Manure | Class›Class conflict | Law›Trespassing | Prejudice›White supremacy
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
The Hamlet, 161 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Tuesday
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Interaction, Social›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Law›Wedding license
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Texas
The Hamlet, 162 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Indifference
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Shoes
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
The Hamlet, 166 (Event)
Environment: Otherworldly›Beyond living world passim
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Bribe | Law›Contract | Religion›Redemption
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Soul / Spirit
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Geographical›China | Allusion, Geographical›Italy | Allusion, Geographical›Polynesia | Tone›Absurdist
The Hamlet, 17 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
The Hamlet, 175 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Memory›Sensory memory
Aesthetics: Tone›Elegiac
The Hamlet, 179 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie
Aesthetics: Narrative›Fantasy
The Hamlet, 218 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Poverty | Education›College | Education›Rural school | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Sexuality›Fecundity
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Naming›Child's name | Values›Idealism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Launcelot | Style›Character portrait
The Hamlet, 218 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Disgust | Moral›Reform
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Hypocrisy
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Pharisee
The Hamlet, 24 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›April
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Cap | Crime›Blackmail
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Objects›Cigar
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Hamlet, 261 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Itinerant | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
The Hamlet, 289 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Support|Neglect
The Hamlet, 292 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting | Time of Year›Spring | Weather›Rain
Actions: Agricultural›Child labor | Movement›Running away | Movement›Surrey
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Rural school | Law›Evidence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Showing up | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
The Hamlet, 30 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Amoral
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Hamlet, 308 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Economic›Auction
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Cousin
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
The Hamlet, 32 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Crime›Horse theft | Crime›Murder | Race›Subverting a stereotype
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
The Hamlet, 32 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | Progress›Trains
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab Snopes Horse trading | Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad
The Hamlet, 348 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tennis shoes | Food›Candy | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Hamlet, 353 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Body›Mental disability | Money›Promissory note
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
The Hamlet, 387 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Dirty | Government›Taxes, local
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jefferson
The Hamlet, 393 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›August
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Land-Use›Ownership
The Hamlet, 400 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Money›Coin | Money›Treasure | Objects›Lamp or lantern
The Hamlet, 405 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
The Hamlet, 405 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Observing | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Psychological›Madness
The Hamlet, 56 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Monday
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›And identity | Gender›Women
The Hamlet, 59 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Friday
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Shoes
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Risque
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
The Hamlet, 64 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›And class
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
The Hamlet, 64 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Economic›Renting | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
The Hamlet, 64 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
The Hamlet, 64 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Footsteps
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Clothes›And class | Clothes›Tie
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
The Hamlet, 65 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Technology›Cotton gin
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
The Hamlet, 66 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Snopesism | Progress›New replacing old
The Hamlet, 66 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Hamlet, 67 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Rationalization | Economic›Settling up
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | History›Colonization | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Africa
The Hamlet, 68 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Economic›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Hamlet, 68 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Spitting | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
The Hamlet, 68 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing | Economic›Rationalization | Work›Shodding
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Body›Face | Objects›Coal oil
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Narrative›Parentheses
The Hamlet, 73 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting | Time of Year›Laid-by season
Actions: Economic›Rationalization
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Building structure
The Hamlet, 74 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
The Hamlet, 74 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Bodily›Eating | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Shirt | Economy›Contract | Food›Ham | Food›Pie | Food›Steak | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation | Health and Illness›Recuperation | Identity, Cultural›Northerner
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Hamlet, 78 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›March
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Emotional›Resignation
Cultural Issues: Class›Middle | Clothes›Tennis shoes | Economy›Expansion
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Hamlet, 80 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Economy›Expansion
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
The Hamlet, 96 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Disgust | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Decent | Money›As motive
Relationships: Civic›Charity
The Hamlet, 98 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Harvest
Actions: Economic›Settling up
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie | Economy›Expansion
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Rabelais, Francois
The Hamlet, 99 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Law›Contract | Law›Trespassing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Snake | Exile›Dispossession | Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 10 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cattle
The Mansion, 11 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Relationships: Familial›Widower
The Mansion, 12 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cattle
The Mansion, 128 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Relocation | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
The Mansion, 13 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Resentment
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Class consciousness | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
The Mansion, 139 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Love
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Values›Family honor
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Recurring Episodes›McCarron ambushed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 150 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Clothes›And class | Clothes›Cap | Economy›Banking
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
The Mansion, 152 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism | Education›Mentorship | Gender›Male rescuer
Themes and Motifs: Money›Hidden
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
The Mansion, 161 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Economic›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bravery | Death›Suicide | Texts›Will
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 168 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Technology›Telegraph | Technology›Telephone
Relationships: Marital›Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village | Narrative›First-person | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
The Mansion, 169 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Driven away
The Mansion, 170 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
The Mansion, 171 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Tie | Economy›Commerce
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Astor, John Jacob | Allusion, Historical›Burr, Aaron | Allusion, Historical›Hamilton, Alexander | Allusion, Historical›Harriman, E.H. | Allusion, Historical›Hill, A.T. | Allusion, Historical›Morgan, J.P.
The Mansion, 174 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Surrey
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
The Mansion, 174 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
The Mansion, 174 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Humility | Texts›Mottoes
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 176 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Actions: Bodily›Sitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Humility
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alps | Allusion, Geographical›Mount Vernon
The Mansion, 217 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Stable | Place›Farm
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Car | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Repair
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Materialism›Status | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Gentrification
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Animals›Tending to animal
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Long Island, New York | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia
The Mansion, 236 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Mansion, 27 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Lot | Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Refusing
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cattle | Objects›Rope | Recurring Tropes›Constitutive moment
The Mansion, 324 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Politics›Campaigning
The Mansion, 326 (Event)
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
The Mansion, 327 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Curious
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Amoral
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
The Mansion, 354 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
The Mansion, 357 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | War›Profiting from war
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Columbus, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical›Greenville, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi Delta
The Mansion, 358 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Growing population | War›Profiting from war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The Mansion, 361 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
The Mansion, 366 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute
The Mansion, 38 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Unseen voice | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Communication›Telegraph | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 383 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
The Mansion, 390 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Thursday | Time of Year›Wednesday
Actions: Economic›Buying | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Respectability | Gender›Masculine woman | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Cincinnatus | Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
The Mansion, 400 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bank
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Economy›Banking | Progress›Cars | Progress›Social | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
The Mansion, 407 (Event)
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
The Mansion, 43 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 445 (Event)
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Overalls | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
The Mansion, 446 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Planning | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Progress›New replacing old | Religion›Religious faith | Slavery›As cause of Civil War | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Great Lakes | Allusion, Geographical›Gulf Coast | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 451 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Patience | Emotional›Proud | Physical›Squatting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
The Mansion, 460 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Economy›Banking | Economy›Commerce | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Objects›Monument
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Uncle-niece
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Arkansas | Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee | Recurring Episodes›Eula's medallion unveiled
The Mansion, 462 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Emotional›Panic | Mental›Realization | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Community›Tradition | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 474 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Domestic Space›Cellar | Natural›Hills | Place›Decayed house
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Money›Cash
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Zodiac | Diction›Rural vernacular
The Mansion, 477 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Dirt / Earth | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Lying down | Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Equality | Region›The West
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom | Philosophical›Human experience | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Angel | Allusion, Mythical›Helen | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 57 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Racoon hunting
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Raccoon | Supernatural›Folklore | Values›Virtue
The Mansion, 59 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Gambling
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Hypocrisy
The Mansion, 63 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Religion›Baptist | Religion›Church service
The Mansion, 66 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Respectability | Crime›Bootlegging
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
The Mansion, 68 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
The Mansion, 8 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Shopping | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses
The Mansion, 8 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
The Mansion, 92 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail
Actions: Emotional›Disgust | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
The Reivers , 17 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Elite | Race›Genealogy | Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 18 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom | Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Law›Property
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Deer | Animals›Panther | Animals›Wolf | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›De Spain creates camp
The Reivers , 20 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Movement›Mule
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | History›Civil War | Hunting and Fishing›Annual
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 21 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
The Reivers , 228 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Class›Equality | Politics›Democracy
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 25 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Clan
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Moses
The Reivers , 26 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Materialism›Status | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 261 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Economy›Banking | Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi
The Reivers , 277 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Praying
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Labor›Racialized
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
The Reivers , 29 (Event)
Actions: Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Materialism›Status | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
The Reivers , 297 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Economy›Gambling | Race›Etiquette
The Reivers , 38 (Event)
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Actions: Domestic›Polish | Domestic›Washing
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Car | Psychological›Obsession
The Reivers , 39 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Entertainment›Motoring | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 51 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Elite | Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
The Reivers , 7 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Work›Driving
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Homelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 70 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Flatulence | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Blood | Race›Genealogy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gasoline
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
The Reivers , 8 (Event)
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Actions: Domestic›Sewing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Handmade
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 9 (Event)
Environment: Place›Lot
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Interaction, Social›Noblesse oblige
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 98 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Paducah
Actions: Interaction, Social›Greeting
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Dirty | Religion›Sabbath
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
The Sound and the Fury, 101 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Dressed up | Education›Psychology class | Religion›Hinduism | Ritual›Sati or suttee
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Books | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Semiramis | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Sacrifice | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Irony | Tone›Sarcastic
The Sound and the Fury, 101 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 102 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 102 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 105 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Class›Pretension
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyelashes | Character›Regal
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Swallows | Narrative›Multiple quotations in a single paragraph | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Sawmill
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 107 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 111 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 133 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Description›Color red | Figures of Speech›Calf rope | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 141 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 145 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town hall
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
The Sound and the Fury, 145 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Scolding | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Legal›Arrest | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Clothes›Veil | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self | Technology›Automobile
Themes and Motifs: Body›Nose
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Tone›Sarcastic
The Sound and the Fury, 147 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Coal dust | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence
The Sound and the Fury, 147 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Joking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Class›Gentility | Sexuality
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre
The Sound and the Fury, 147 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Reassurance | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Beer | Class›Gentility
Themes and Motifs: Body›Knee
The Sound and the Fury, 148 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 148 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Dew | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Mint julep | Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Aristocratic posing | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Southern woman | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Plant mint | Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Old maid | Style›Unfinished sentence
The Sound and the Fury, 148 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 149 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Objects›Basket | Objects›Books
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
The Sound and the Fury, 176 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Nihilism | Time›Permanence | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 188 (Event)
Environment: Public›School
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity | Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Racist term
The Sound and the Fury, 194 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Selling | Moral›Reform | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Farming tools
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Diction›Racist term
The Sound and the Fury, 290 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Bells | Place›Church
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Impairment | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
The Sound and the Fury, 298 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Camphor
Actions: Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Religion›Bible
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence of sound | Death›Suicide | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
The Sound and the Fury, 62 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Carrying | Play›Children playing | Verbal›Complaining | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Dolls | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Scissors | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Symbolism›Reflection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 70 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Feeding | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Food
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Fire | Philosophical›Luck | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 81 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Verbal›Joking
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›Being well read / erudite
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 86 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Rabbit | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives
The Sound and the Fury, 89 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Smelling water | Public›Street
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Work clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Gulls | Body›Knee | Objects›Basket | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Ship | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Charles River | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Invisible wire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Sound and the Fury, 90 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Ice floes / iceberg | Atmospheric›Wind | Natural›River | Time of Year›March | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Renting | Legal›Calling police | Mental›Believing | Movement›Boat | Movement›Car | Movement›Following | Movement›Matching / Paralleling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Hat, straw | Law›Police | Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Relationship with God | Religion›Sacrilege
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Character›Regal
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Geographical›Arctic | Allusion, Geographical›Charles River | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Massachusetts | Allusion, Historical›Explorers | Figures of Speech›King and/or queen | Figures of Speech›Planets | Figures of Speech›Sheep | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 91 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 92 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 92 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 94 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 96 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Respect | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 107 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Heidelberg
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Heidelberg, Germany | Allusion, Historical›Helen of Troy | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 111 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Cousin
The Town, 112 (Event)
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Letter | Verbal›News
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Food›Ice-cream
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cats | Animals›Snake
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 117 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Tea
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›College | Food›Ice-cream
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Responsibility | Objects›Tea | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›University of Virginia | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 118 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Town, 126 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Banking
Themes and Motifs: Money›Payoff
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 13 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›June
Actions: Emotional›Laughing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Ambition | Class›Middle | Nationality›American | Politics›City government | Politics›Election | Progress›Cars | Progress›Ironies of | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Chicago | Allusion, Historical›Crusades | Allusion, Historical›De Bouillon, Godfrey | Allusion, Historical›Richard I of England | Allusion, Historical›Tancred | Narrative›Self-correction | Tone›Humorous
The Town, 134 (Event)
Environment: Public›School
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
The Town, 135 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity
The Town, 136 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grocery
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Retirement
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling
The Town, 136 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Character›Work ethic | Objects›Shotgun | Objects›Watermelon
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 14 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Interaction, Social›Leadership
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Mass Media›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car
Relationships: Social›Fame
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Grable, Betty | Allusion, Historical›Harlow, Jean | Allusion, Historical›Monroe, Marilyn | Figures of Speech›Personification | Tone›Absurdist
The Town, 143 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Housman, A.E. | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 152 (Event)
Environment: Place›Playground | Public›School
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Suit | Education›Graduation | History›Civil War | Progress›Cars | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Money›Inheritance | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Nickname
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Lookout Mountain | Allusion, Literary›Gulliver's Travels | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 157 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grocery
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection
The Town, 177 (Event)
Environment: Public›Courtroom
Actions: Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Legal›Trial | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 190 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Boxing | Work›Mechanic
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie | Sexuality›Learning about | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe
Relationships: Familial›Twins | Romantic›Flirtation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Cicero | Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 230 (Event)
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
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Coffee pot | Objects›Furniture
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 233 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Surprise | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Respectability | Gender›Idealization | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 268 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
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
The Town, 281 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›And class | Clothes›Overalls | Economy›Banking | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Town, 295 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Money
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Town, 305 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
The Town, 32 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 364 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Objects›Monument | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 37 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Assault | Work›Blacksmith
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Marital›Bigamy
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Masons | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 377 (Event)
Environment: Place›Railroad | Time of Year›July
Actions: Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Dehumanization | Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Texts | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Widower
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 380 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Pretension | Materialism›Status | Progress›Consumerism | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 389 (Event)
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Indian Removal
Aesthetics: Diction›Malapropism | Diction›Rural vernacular
The Town, 4 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Education›Law school
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
The Town, 45 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Intelligence
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Adam | Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Allusion, Historical›Helen of Troy | Allusion, Historical›Semiramis | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 53 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Entertainment›Football
Relationships: Social›Social organizations
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 6 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Father in law-son in law | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
The Town, 83 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Trees
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Cruel
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
The Town, 9 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Restauranteer
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific
The Town, 96 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Wagner, Richard | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Self-correction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
The Unvanquished, 119 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Tobacco
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
The Unvanquished, 136 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Freedom | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Community
Relationships: Civic›Charity
The Unvanquished, 137 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-reliance | Money›Cash | Texts›Ledger
The Unvanquished, 149 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Believing | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Greed
The Unvanquished, 155 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grave | Place›Graveyard | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Eulogy | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Gun | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 175 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Unvanquished, 49 (Event)
Environment: Public›Pasture
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | War›Confederate Army | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Social›Neighbor
The Unvanquished, 50 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | War›Confederate Army | War›Military reassignment
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Second Manassas
The Unvanquished, 78 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | War›Homefront
The Unvanquished, 78 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect