Relationships: Marital
Child Terms
- Abandonment
- Abusive
- Adultery
- Alleged
- Arranged
- Arrangements
- As atonement
- Bachelor
- Bigamy
- Breakup
- Certificate
- Civil marriage
- Common law
- Conflict
- Death of spouse
- Desertion
- Divorce
- Elopement
- Entrapment
- Father in law-son in law
- Forced
- Honeymoon
- Honeymoon
- Husband-wife
- Interaction
- Intergenerational
- Interracial
- Jealousy
- Loving
- Marriage vs freedom
- Re-marriage
- Reconciliation
- Secrecy
- Separated
- Shotgun marriage
- Social respectability
- Spousal privilege
- Strife
- Vicarious wedding
- Violence
- Wedding
Tagged Events
Actions: Domestic›Sewing | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime | Economy›Moonshine
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman salute
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Moral›Scheming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial | Marital›Husband-wife
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Texts›Letter of protest
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
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›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 | 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
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Law›Legal issue | Law›Spousal privilege | Law›Witness | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
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
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Naming self | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Law›Wedding license
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes | Gender›Clothing | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Death›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Adultery
Environment: Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Wedding
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Naming›Child's name | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Indiana | Recurring Episodes›Caddy's wedding
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Caddy's marriage ends
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hollywood
Themes and Motifs: Exile | Home›Estranged | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Abandonment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Over time | Home›Getting away
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Bigamy | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Miss Quentin runs away
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration
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
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Mourning | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Recurring Tropes›Searching
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Political solidarity
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Government | Group Mentality›Community collective | Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Economical | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Property | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Moral›Deception | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Marriage | Race›Hierarchical
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass | Psychological›Manipulation
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Razor | Psychological›Manipulation
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Sunset
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Verbal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›April
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Disguise
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Silence | Violent›Vengeance
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
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
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Hope
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment | Romantic›Extra-marital | Sexual›Inappropriate
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Work | Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Marital›Forced
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Sexual›Extramarital
Actions: Emotional›Resignation
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
Relationships: Marital›Secrecy | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Not caring about race | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Accident
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Interpretation | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Tone›Humorous
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: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Saving money | Verbal›Badgering
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Emotional›Calm | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Economy›Economic speculation | Economy›Property
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Germany
Actions: Verbal›Garrulousness
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Bookishness
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Telephone
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Mystery | Recurring Episodes›Harriss' death
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Store porch
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Community›Opinion | Objects›Tobacco | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment | Marital›Adultery
Actions: Interaction, Social›Elopement | Interaction, Social›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Auditory›Heartbeat | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Metaphorical elephant | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Door
Environment: Place›Vacant house
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Chivalry
Environment: Place›Vacant house
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Values›Faithfulness
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Communication›Newspaper columns and notices | Communication›Writing | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Christ | Allusion, Biblical›Mary
Environment: Natural›Back country
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Communication›Letter
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements | Objects›Stove
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Values›Love
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Loving | Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters | Symbolism›Fire
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
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Character›Superhuman strength
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
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Disruption
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Interaction
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Government›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Slavery›Violence
Relationships: Marital
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Dress | Gender›Southern woman | Region›Lost Cause
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Southern woman | Region›Lost Cause
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Institutional›Military | Intergenerational›Female | Marital›Forced
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Female | Marital›Civil marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Lane
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
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: 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: Time of Day›Monday morning | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Indian name
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Family | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Intergenerational | Marital
Actions: Military›Destruction of enemy property
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Civil War | War›On homefront
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Relationships: Marital›Entrapment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Narcissa marries Bayard
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Marital›Death of spouse
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Elopement | Moral›Prohibiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Elopement
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend | Place›Memphis
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article | Legal›Claim
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Law›Inheritance | Law›Property | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wedding license
Relationships: Marital›Alleged | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Hill country | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Named for historical figure | Objects›Pistol
Actions: Economic›Renting | Verbal›Storytelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Education | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Radio | War›Aerial combat | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Marital›Elopement | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Wedding dress
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Marital›Arrangements
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
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Gambling | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Meaning | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Work›Gardening
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Divorce
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Morals›Injustice | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Tombstone
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Engagement
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Disorientation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Enlistment | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Electricity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Legal›Arrest
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee | Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Gender›And marriage | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Marital›Father in law-son in law
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Shawl | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Domestic Space
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Thimble | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Trauma
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Familial | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
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
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Fantasy
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Painting | Metafictional›Picture/image
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Health and Illness›Obesity
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Verbal›Rumor
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Cultural Issues: Education›Law school
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Lothario
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Carriage
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
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
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Memory›Forgetting
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender | Sexuality›Experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Adultery
Environment: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Free Will
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Character›Intelligence | Character›Responsibility | Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Paternity | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Religion›Piety
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Ambiguity
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Re-marriage
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Domestic Space›House | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Philosophical›Freedom
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital
Actions: Mental›Incomprehension
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Global›Travel | Identity, Cultural›Englishness
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Industry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Twins | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Character›Responsibility
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Breakup
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Actions: Legal›Divorce | Mental›Changing one's mind
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Etiquette
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Marital›Reconciliation
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements | Objects›Stove
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Values›Love
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Loving | Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters | Symbolism›Fire
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
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Disruption
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Interaction
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Forced
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry | Economy›Gambling | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Response to | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Appearance›Nakedness
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Emotional›Detachment
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Marital›Death of spouse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Love
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
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
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
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
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Law›Testimony | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Marital›Honeymoon
Relationships: Marital›Certificate
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Certificate | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Conflict
Cultural Issues: Law›Spousal privilege
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Spousal privilege
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Divorce
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Migration›Movement to city | Migration›North
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Year›January | Weather›Cold
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Predicting
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Physical›Bathing | Verbal›Discussion
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Conflict
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Lying
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Physical›Waiting
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Preacher / Minister
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Common law
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Verbal›Disagreeing
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moment of | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Sexual
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Teasing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Teasing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Relationships: Marital›Desertion | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Secrecy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Sunday
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Year›Monday
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Violent›Kidnapping
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Abandonment | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Guilt | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Texts›Love letter | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Purification
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Religion›Islam | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Themes and Motifs: Body›Pregnancy | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Dressing room
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Money›Cash | Objects›Baby bottle
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-infant | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Adultery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Burial | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Emotional›Repentance | Legal›Pardon | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Command
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Miscarriage | Moral›Forgiveness | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Religion›Religious faith | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Time of Day›Six o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Waiting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Prostitution | Modernity›Interwar years
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›Past in present | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Withholding
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Repression | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Mumbling | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Crime›Prostitution | Entertainment›Movies | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial | Marital›Interracial
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Frontier life
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | History›Frontier outlawry | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Double standard
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Texts›Telegram
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Divorce | Marital›Husband-wife
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
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Movement›Hitch-hiking | Movement›Running away | Movement›Truck | Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Crime›Bootlegging
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Olfactory›Coffee | Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Shaving | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Making coffee | Emotional›Exhaustion
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Texts›Letters
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Numbness | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Food›Candy | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Home›Home as prison | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Texts›Magazine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting
Cultural Issues: Economy›Labor trouble | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Technology›Streetcars
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Christmas card
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement | Health and Illness›Developmental problems
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment | Marital›Re-marriage
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Suitcase
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances | Marital›Honeymoon
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Crime›Cattle rustling | Gender›Male rescuer
Actions: Emotional›Mourning | Interaction, Social›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Values›Faithfulness
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Orphan | Marital›Death of spouse
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Metaphorical
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Romantic›Courtship
Relationships: Marital›Common law
Cultural Issues: Region›The West | Religion›Fanaticism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Magdalen
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Actions: Emotional›Ambivalence
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Money›Disdaining money
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting
Actions: Agricultural›Child labor | Movement›Running away
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Showing up | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space | Labor›Racialized | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Economic›Horse trading
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Economic›Eviction | Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Education›College | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Style›Address to reader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry | Style›Address to reader
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Technology›Telegraph | Technology›Telephone
Relationships: Marital›Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village | Narrative›First-person
Cultural Issues: Government›Congress | History›American Revolution | Identity, Personal›Ancestral | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Change over time
Actions: Work›House painter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Conventional
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Death›Car accident
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Marital›Bachelor
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Milton, John | Allusion, Literary›Spenser, Edmund
Themes and Motifs: Money›Disdaining money
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hotel
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Russia | Allusion, Literary›Thackeray
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bomb-sight
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | Religion›Preacher / Minister | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›World War II
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Military awards | War›Veterans
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Extra-marital
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›Road traffic
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Caddy's marriage ends
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Objects›Monument | Past›Family history | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Neighbor
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Technology›Atomic bomb | War›Return from war | War›Surrender
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Pearl Harbor
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wheel chair
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry