Environment: Domestic Space
Child Terms
- Apartment
- Architecture
- Attic
- Backyard
- Barn
- Bathroom
- Bedroom
- Boarding house
- Cabin
- Carriage house
- Cellar
- Chicken coop / hen house
- Closet
- College dormitory
- Confined living quarters
- Deathbed
- Dilapidation
- Dining room
- Dollhouse
- Drawing room
- Dressing room
- Drive
- Empty room
- Field
- Fireplace|Mantel
- Gallery
- Garage
- Garden
- Gate
- Gender stereotype
- Hall
- Hearth
- Hogwallow
- Home
- House
- Immigrant neighborhood
- Kitchen
- Ladies parlor
- Lean-to
- Library
- Livestock pen
- Loft
- Log house
- Log yard
- Lot
- Office
- Outhouse
- Paddock
- Parlor
- Pasture
- Plantation house
- Porch
- Race
- Racial confusion
- Ritual
- Servants' home
- Sick room
- Sitting room
- Stable
- Stairway
- Study
- Summer house
- Supper table
- Upstairs
- Veranda
- Yard
Sibling Terms
Tagged Events
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Emotional›Self-pity | Moral›Scheming | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Verbal›Joking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Invisibility | Time›Measuring time
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Poker
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Auditory | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Indian mound
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Suspicion | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Play›Prank | Verbal›Bragging | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Technology›Automobile
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Interaction, Private›Coercion
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Poisoning
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Law›Sheriff | Mass Media›Telephone | Race›Etiquette | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›Etiquette | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Work›Law enforcement
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Stable | Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
Actions: Verbal›Command | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Panama hat | Law›Spousal privilege
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Kinship | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Style›Character portrait
Environment: Domestic Space›Stable | Place›Field | Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Laid-by season | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Work›Farming
Relationships: Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Cottonfield | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Law›Spousal privilege | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Dowry | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Well | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Conflict | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Laid-by season
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Ancestral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›December
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Age›Maturing | Government›Generational reform | Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Response to
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Environment: Auditory›Combat sounds | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Public›Cafe
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Lying | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Listening | Violent›Killing of animals
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Trans-regional | Gender›Chivalry | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Home›Distance from home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Time›Duration of time
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Yelling
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Livestock pen
Actions: Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Union Army
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Violent›Disfigurement | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Naming›Change over time | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poster
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Disguise | Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Character›Hubris | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Genre Conventions›Parable | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Woods | Place›Lawns | Place›Plantation | Place›Quarters | Place›Stable
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
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›Crowded | Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Place›Houses | Public›Golf course
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernization | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Command | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Animals›Whippoorwills | Home | Objects›Candle | Philosophical›Ethics | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Abusive | Marital›Conflict
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Relationships: Hierarchical›Doctor-patient | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Olfactory›Flowers
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes | Identity, Personal›Old vs new selves | Law›Trial
Environment: Domestic Space | Place›Houses
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Brass
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda
Actions: Interaction, Private›Sexual
Cultural Issues: Gender›Flapper | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Introspective | Emotional›Shame
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Closet
Actions: Interaction, Social›Competition | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Passing | Race›Racial identity | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Racialized
Relationships: Interracial›Prospective
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting
Environment: Auditory›Footsteps | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Introspective
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Interaction, Private›Domineering
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Time›Unsynchronized clocks
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Cleansing power of water
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Dinner | Time of Day›Noon
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Deception | Physical›Sitting
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Conflict
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Character›Pride | Objects›Tobacco | Values›Honor
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Tone›Mock-heroic
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Embarrasment
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Wanting a drink
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Emotional›Calm | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Bandage
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Detective fiction
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Communication›Writing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Objects›Cards | Objects›Letter
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Porch
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Scamming | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Domestic | Labor›Farming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Environment: Domestic Space›Confined living quarters | Place›Grocery | Place›Vacant lot
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Confined living quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military terminology
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Isolation
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Time of Year›January | Weather›Fog
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Comedy
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Sidewalk
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Environment: Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Public›Store
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Scamming | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer | Time of Year›Winter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Environment: Domestic Space›Upstairs | Public›Road
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›Outhouse
Cultural Issues: War›Pillage | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Outhouse | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Auditory›Gallop | Domestic Space›Outhouse | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: War›Pillage | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Environment: Domestic Space›Outhouse
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious
Relationships: Romantic
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Summer house
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female intuition
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›Summer house
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: Race
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Lot
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Upstairs | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Supper
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Sadness | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Library
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Gender›Southern woman | War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Accent
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Insubordination
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Responsibility
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Library
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Communication›Letter
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Food | Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements | Objects›Stove
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Ritual
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Cooking | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Food›Dependable
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Domestic | Money›Coin | Money›Silver dollar | Values›Faithfulness
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Agriculture›Household gardening | Economy›Poverty
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Government›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Architecture
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Fox
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Ritual
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Field
Actions: Communication›Letter | Work›Farming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Grief | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Domestic Space›Field | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Planting time
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Time›Permanence
Relationships: Ancestral
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Friday | Time of Year›July
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Communication›Newspaper columns and notices | Emotional›Grief | Movement›Truck | Physical›Walking | Work›Churning butter
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Community›Social life | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Plane accident
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Physical›Bathing
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cap | Technology›Invention
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: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›July
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Tirade
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Satchel | Objects›Towel
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Hearth | Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype | Domestic Space›Race | Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Southern woman | War›Return
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, male
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Chaos/Order›Out of ordered place
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Health and Illness›Nursing
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Monday morning | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Work›Washing clothes
Themes and Motifs: Memory
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Health and Illness | Labor›Domestic
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Racist child | Violence›Domestic
Relationships: Friendship | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Singing | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Stalking | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Terror
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Excitement | Physical›Bathing
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injury
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Animal / stable
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Place›Plantation
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Trophy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Insects tick | Objects›Gun | Story-telling›Hunting
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Office | Natural›Wilderness | Natural›Woods | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Gender›All-male space | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Art›Poetry | Character›Pride | Morals›Honor | Morals›Justice | Texts›Poetry | Values›Courage | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Dilapidation
Actions: Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Amputation | Health and Illness›Injury | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Year›November
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Amputation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Individualism | Values›Conservatism
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
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
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Race›Etiquette
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend | Public›Store | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cicadas | Animals›Lightning bugs | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Hills | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Gender›Masculinity | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Intertextuality›Embedded text, lettering
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Milking | Domestic›Nursing | Domestic›Washing | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Rural poverty
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Naming›False name | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Education›Primary school | Global›Pacific Ocean
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Work›Chopping wood
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Age›Youth | Nationality›Japanese | War›Patriotism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Home | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Day›Daytime
Environment: Domestic Space›Livestock pen | Time of Year›December
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Movement›Mule
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Death›Murder | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Race›Division | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Familial | Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Emotional›Love | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Winter
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Work›Gardening
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Language | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Cultural Issues: War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Noncombatant
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›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Communication›Without words | Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Race›Colorism
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Narrative›Irony
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room | Olfactory›Flowers
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Time›Lost time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Drawing room
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Body›Skin | Character›Naivety | Home›Homecoming | Story-telling›Collaborative | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Drawing room
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative | Time›Simultaneity of time
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
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: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Body›Mental disability | Meaning›Mystery | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Silence
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poe, Edgar Allan
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Olfactory›Cigar
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Silence
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Predicting
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Legal›Arrest
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Domestic Space
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Thimble | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Trauma
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›Confined living quarters
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›Fall | Weather›Heat
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Confederate Army
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Crime›Looting | Food | War›Deprivation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Deathbed | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Past | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Architecture | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Thunderclap
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Moral›Corrupting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Cultural Identity›Puritan | Economy›Wealth | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Medical / Surgical
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Drinking
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Neighbor
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Rural poverty | Clothes›Shoes
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Physical›Meddling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death›Dying wish | Philosophical›Human nature | Story-telling›Retelling
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Cultural Issues: Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Religion›Blessing | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Preacher / Minister
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Death›Afterlife
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Perceptual›Misreading
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Communication›Without words | Mental›Channeling
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door | Values›Truth/Lies
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Philosophical›Movement
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Emotional›Exhaustion | Interaction, Private›Parenting
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Deathbed | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Resentment | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Hierarchical›Doctor-patient
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Deathbed | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Shaking | Emotional›Grief | Moral›Rationalization | Physical›Sawing | Verbal›Shouting | Work›Carpenter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Sawing | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Deathbed
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dipping snuff
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Opportunism | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Gender›Labor | Health and Illness›Abortion | Health and Illness›Medical advice | Health and Illness›Obesity | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Snake
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Worry | Verbal›Hushing | Violent
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Psychological›Trauma
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Domestic Space›House | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Ritual›Funeral
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injured | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Community›Opinion | Death›Funeral | Values›Determination
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Ritual›Funeral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Voice
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space | Gender›Work | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Semiramis
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Work›Building structure
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England
Environment: Domestic Space›Dollhouse | Domestic Space›Home | Olfactory›Trees
Actions: Work›Landscaping
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Materialism›Status
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Fall
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers Roses | Time›Future
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Verbal›Marriage proposal
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Domestic Space›Log house | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›