Cultural Issues: Class Social mobility
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambition
- Aristocratic posing
- Birthright
- Blood
- British nobility
- Caste system
- Class conflict
- Class consciousness
- Declasse
- Dehumanization
- Disruption
- Elite
- Equality
- Etiquette
- French nobility
- Gentility
- Homelessness
- Itinerant
- Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
- Middle
- noblesse-oblige
- Planter vs farmer
- Power
- Pretension
- Professional
- Respectability
- Snopesism
- Social decline
- Status, low
- Town v. country/farm
- White trash
- Working
Tagged Events
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: 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: 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
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Indifference
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Shoes
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
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing
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
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Technology›Telegraph | Technology›Telephone
Relationships: Marital›Intergenerational
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility
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
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Self-correction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Retirement
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling
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
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
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
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