Cultural Issues: Class
Child Terms
- Ambition
- Aristocratic posing
- Birthright
- Blood
- British nobility
- Caste system
- Class conflict
- Class consciousness
- Declasse
- Dehumanization
- Disruption
- Elite
- Equality
- Etiquette
- French nobility
- Gentility
- Homelessness
- Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
- Middle
- noblesse-oblige
- Planter vs farmer
- Power
- Pretension
- Professional
- Respectability
- Snopesism
- Social decline
- Social mobility
- Status, low
- Town v. country/farm
- White trash
- Working
Sibling Terms
- Age
- Agriculture
- Alcohol
- Clothes
- Crime
- Cultural Identity
- Economy
- Education
- Entertainment
- Ethnicity
- Food
- Gender
- Global
- Government
- Group Mentality
- Health and Illness
- History
- Hunting and Fishing
- Identity, Cultural
- Identity, Personal
- Labor
- Land-Use
- Law
- Mass Media
- Materialism
- Migration
- Modernity
- Nationality
- Politics
- Prejudice
- Progress
- Race
- Region
- Religion
- Ritual
- Segregation
- Sexuality
- Slavery
- Supernatural
- Technology
- Violence
- War
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Unemployment
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Great Depression
Environment: Place›Farm | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Naming›Indian name
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Poisoning
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Power | Class›Professional | Economy›Wealth | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Cultural Issues: Age | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Women | Government›Generational reform | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Psychological›Madness
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Reproduction | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes | Gender›Clothing | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Homosocial rivalry
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Amiens, France | Allusion, Historical›Cambrai
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: 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
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
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
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tallahatchie River
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Social decline | Government›Governor
Themes and Motifs: Death›Eulogy | Memory›Forgetting | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
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
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
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
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
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Scoundrel | Story-telling›Explaining
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Emotional›Embarrasment
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Environment: Domestic Space | Place›Houses
Cultural Issues: Class›Middle | Gender›All-male space
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Mental›Predicting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
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
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Middle
Themes and Motifs: Body›Appearance-plain
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Intergenerational›Female
Aesthetics: Narrative›Indeterminacy
Actions: Interaction, Social›Peer group
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Red necks | Death›Corpse | Texts›Death certificate
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›New car
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Community›Stranger | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Hierarchical
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Gender›Female stereotype
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement | Romantic›Multiple
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Law›Alienating
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | War›Union Army
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Supply house
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Library
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Gender›Southern woman | War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Accent
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Illiteracy
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Education›Need to be educated | Identity, Cultural›Mankind | Progress›Education
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›San Francisco | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Money›Lacking
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Education›Harvard | Law›County attorney
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Einstein, Albert
Environment: Auditory›Confused din
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Economy›Predatory practices
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
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
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Morals›Injustice
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Government›As source of money | Identity, Cultural›Rural | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Stock trading
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Believing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Gender›Masculine woman
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Narrative›Narrative anomaly
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Clothes›Shoes | Food›Race | Mass Media›Magazines
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Symbolism›Blood
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Relationships: Marital›Entrapment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Narcissa marries Bayard
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash
Relationships: Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Ethnicity›Jewish | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Identity, Cultural›South vs North
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
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend | Place›Rural
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Movement›Driving
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
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
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Verbal›Self-justifying
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
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
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Dehumanization
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Values›Justice
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wedding license | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Aesthetics: Diction›Derogatory socio-economic term
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash
Aesthetics: Diction›Derogatory socio-economic term | Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | Health and Illness›Malaria
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Status, low
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
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
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Wealth | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
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
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
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
Actions: Moral›Deception | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Race›Mixed race
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Race | Religion›Apotheosis | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
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
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | 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›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Electricity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Greeting | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Godhead | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Narrative›Anti-climax
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Marital›Father in law-son in law
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Meaning›Mystery | Past
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Philosophical›Power of literature
Relationships: Intergenerational
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
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Stage manager | Figures of Speech›Woodpile
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Moth | Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Thunderclap
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Objet d'art | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Traditions
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Values›Loyalty
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Environment: Place›Fishing camp
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Hunting and Fishing | Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Rural poverty | Clothes›Shoes
Actions: Domestic›Care | Interaction, Private›Courting | Interaction, Social›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Economy›Property
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Emotional›Embarrasment | 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
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Medical treatment | Law›Marshal
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
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
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Actions: Interaction, Private›Coercion | Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Moral›Exploitation | Moral›Fraud | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Threat
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Frogs | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Violence against animals
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Migration›Intraregional migration
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Materialism›Status
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Law›Inheritance refusal
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming | Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Non-human›Attack | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
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
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›All-male space | Region›Hospitality
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
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
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
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
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
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Burial | Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Racial spheres | Slavery›Metaphorical | War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Division
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›Racism | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Labor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery›Growth of
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Withholding
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Entertainment›Music
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Searching
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Place›Gate
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Moral›Blackmail
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Prostitution
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Prostitution
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Law›Conviction | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Garment female
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Class consciousness | Education›College life
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›College life
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Prejudice›White supremacy
Environment: Otherworldly›Beyond living world passim
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Naming›Child's name | Values›Idealism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Launcelot
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting
Actions: Agricultural›Child labor | Movement›Running away
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Showing up | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Economic›Auction
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›And identity | Gender›Women
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›And class
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Economic›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Building structure
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Bodily›Eating
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Snopesism | Economy›Contract | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation | Health and Illness›Recuperation
Environment: Time of Year›Harvest
Actions: Economic›Settling up
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Actions: Emotional›Resentment
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | Alcohol›Moonshine | Class›Class consciousness | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Values›Family honor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem reaches Jefferson
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Government›Corruption
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism | Education›Mentorship | Gender›Male rescuer
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Death›Funeral
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Technology›Telegraph | Technology›Telephone
Relationships: Marital›Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village | Narrative›First-person
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Commerce
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alps | Allusion, Geographical›Mount Vernon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Materialism›Status | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Gentrification
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Politics›Campaigning
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | War›Profiting from war
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Growing population | War›Profiting from war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Unseen voice
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Thinking | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Respectability | Gender›Masculine woman | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Cincinnatus
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Economy›Banking | Progress›Cars | Progress›Social | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Agriculture›Corn | Class›Caste system | Economy›Wealth | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Law›Grand jury | Law›Legal document | Law›Sheriff | Progress›Electrification
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Community›Tradition | Death›Funeral
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Gender›Women
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Zodiac
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom | Philosophical›Human experience | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Angel | Allusion, Mythical›Helen | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Hunting›Racoon hunting
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Religion›Baptist
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Religion›Church service
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Crime›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Moonshining | Law›Conviction
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation
Actions: Mental›Planning | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Blackmail | Sexuality›Impotence | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Pornography
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Uncertain relationship | Marital›Jealousy
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Health and Illness›Injured
Relationships: Familial›Uncertain relationship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Elite | Race›Genealogy | Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom | Time of Year›Hunting season
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Law›Property
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›De Spain creates camp
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Moses
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Economy›Banking | Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Labor›Racialized
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Entertainment›Motoring | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Work›Driving
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Homelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Flatulence | Movement›Car
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Handmade
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Paducah
Actions: Interaction, Social›Greeting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Inferiority
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Equality | Class›Gentility | Government›Governor | Religion›Sin | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Morality | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Figures of Speech›Poisoned | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Embarrasment | Emotional›Reassurance | Emotional›Shame | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Courting | Moral›Deception | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Values›Honor | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Inferiority | Emotional›Joy | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Selfishness | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Blood | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Sexual double standard | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Psalms | Allusion, Biblical›Valley of the shadow of death | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Style›Long sentence | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Natural›River | Natural›Tide flat / marsh | Natural›Trees | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Weather
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Entertainment›Boat race | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Traits | Gender›Women | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Art›Photograph | Character›Inherited traits | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Boat | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New London, Connecticut | Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Class›Pretension
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›