Relationships: Familial Husband-wife
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Adoptive
- Aunt-nephew
- Aunt-niece
- Blended
- Brother-brother
- Brother-sister
- Childlessness
- Clan
- Cohesion
- Common law marriage
- Competition
- Conflict
- Cousin
- Cousin-cousin
- Descendants
- Dissolution
- Dynasty
- Dysfunctional
- Exigent circumstances
- Extended family
- Family as shackle
- Father-daughter
- Father-son
- Father-son in law
- Favoritism
- Foster family
- Fratricide
- Genealogy
- Grandparent-grandchild
- Great grandfather-grandfather
- Interracial
- Invented
- Kinless
- Kinship
- Mentorship
- Mother-daughter
- Mother-daughter passim
- Mother-in-law
- Mother-infant
- Mother-son
- Mother-son
- Motherhood
- Nepotism
- Orphan
- Parents-children
- Patriarch
- Physical discipline
- Physical resemblances
- Providing for
- Sibling
- Sister-sister
- Stepparent-child
- Support|Neglect
- Surrogate
- Twins
- Uncertain relationship
- Uncle-nephew
- Uncle-niece
- Widower
Tagged Events
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Violent›Intimidation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Post-war | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Redemption
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Place›Well|Wellhouse | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Play›Historical recreation | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Childhood friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Companions
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Gender›Marriage | Race›Racial identity | Race›Segregated space | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral | Meaning›Profound | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Coworker
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Violence against civilians
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Sunday shoes
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Neighbor
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Health and Illness›Injury | Labor
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›July
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Asking for money | Physical›Meddling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Law›Wedding license
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Language›Profanity
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Stable | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Running | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Wrestling | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Vowing | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Maternal impulse | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Interracial violence | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Education›Harvard | History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Exaggeration
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Social›Neighbor
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: Atmospheric›Dread | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Storm
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Philosophical›Freedom
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Syria
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Symbolism›Fire
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Gender›Marriage | Race›Racial identity | Race›Segregated space | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral | Meaning›Profound | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Coworker
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Romantic›Sexual
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Sexuality›Manipulative
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Breathing | Emotional›Jealousy | Mental›Planning | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Dialogue
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy | Marital›Violence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Widow | Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Naming slaves
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Economy›Savings | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Domestic›Cooking
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Mammy-child
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters | Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Clothes›Shoes | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Certificate | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Half dollar
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Watching | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Values›Imagination
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Allusion, Historical›Bernhardt, Sarah | Allusion, Historical›Duse, Eleonora | Allusion, Historical›Emperor Maximilian | Allusion, Historical›Lind, Jenny | Allusion, Historical›Mark Twain | Allusion, Historical›Mistinguett | Allusion, Mythical›Erinys | Narrative›Alternative story | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Divorce
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Economy›Renting housing | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Child's perspective
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry | Figures of Speech›Expression | Narrative›Parentheses
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
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: teeth
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Reassurance | Emotional›Shame | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Courting | Moral›Deception | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Values›Honor | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Child-rearing | Economic›Child support | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Parenting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Abandonment | Marital›Breakup
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Caddy's marriage ends
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling death | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Studying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Guilt | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pushing away
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Eyes | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Respect | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Women | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Environment: Atmospheric›Night | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Laughing | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Movement›Car | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Checkers | Play›Chess | Verbal›Arguing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Coffee | Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Conflict | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Place›Well|Wellhouse | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Play›Historical recreation | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference | Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Racial | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Companions
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Profanity