Themes and Motifs: Money Ill-gotten
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- As motive
- As symbol
- Bill
- Cash
- Check
- Coin
- Collecting money
- Confederate
- Disdaining money
- Dowry
- Earned
- Expenses
- Filthy lucre
- Gift of money
- Gold
- Half dollar
- Hidden
- In prospect
- Inheritance
- Lacking
- Loot
- Lost
- Luxury
- Meaning of
- Money order
- Need for
- Nickel coin
- Owed
- Payoff
- Prize value
- Promissory note
- Quarter coin
- Recovery
- Refund
- Reward
- Saving
- Scholarship
- Silver dollar
- Social force
- Stingy with money
- Stolen
- Stud fee
- Treasure
- Wasting
- Won
Tagged Events
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Riding | Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Play›Gambling | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Birthright | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Consumption | Economy›Gambling | Identity, Personal›Background | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Character›Opportunism | Character›Recklessness | Determinism›Vs human agency | Money›As motive | Money›Ill-gotten | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Character›Indomitable | Money›Ill-gotten
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Death›Of parent | Home›Improvements | Money›Ill-gotten