Cultural Issues: Gender Widow

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"Skirmish at Sartoris", 67 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defeat | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Widow | Politics›Voting | Region›Lost Cause | Region›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Intergenerational›Female
"There Was a Queen", 732 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Migration›Intraregional migration | War›Civil War consequences
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Heirloom | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
"There Was a Queen", 736 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
"There Was a Queen", 738 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Remarriage
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Gender›Women
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood
Absalom, Absalom!, 10 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Despair | Military›Combat | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Return | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide | Gender›Widow | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Character›Pride | Character›Scoundrel | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Home›Estranged | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Misogynistic wording | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Style›Long sentence
Absalom, Absalom!, 156 (Event)
Environment: Place›Graveyard
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Mourning | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Race
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tombstone
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Wilde, Oscar | Metafictional›Theatrical setting
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Riding | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Widow | Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal ownership | Law›Property | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Retribution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Local legends | Death›Future | Death›Spousal | Determinism›Fated | Home›New home | Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Collective memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Past | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Figures of Speech›Breath | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Origin | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
As I Lay Dying, 90 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Character›Precision
Go Down, Moses, 103 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Gender›Widow
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Familial›Patriarch
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Go Down, Moses, 343 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Realization | Work›Teaching | Work›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Labor›Racialized
Go Down, Moses, 5 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Widow | Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Hamlet, 150 (Event)
Environment: Place›Gambling house
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Violence›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial
The Hamlet, 68 (Event)
Environment: Place›Railroad | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Infection
The Mansion, 251 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bank
Actions: Economic›Banking | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›War | Gender›Widow
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 Town, 242 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Agricultural›Milking a cow | Agricultural›Planting | Agricultural›Plowing | Movement›Train | Verbal›Talking | Work›Chopping wood
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Violence›Accident
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Animal mule | Death›Response to
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse