Themes and Motifs: Money As motive

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"Death Drag", 197 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›January
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Car | Movement›Flight
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Absalom, Absalom!, 196 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Ship
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Absalom, Absalom!, 241 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 241 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 241 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Economy›Wealth | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 242 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Moral›Exploitation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Coke upon Littleton | Allusion, Historical›Sabine people | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 248 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Packing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 271 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence | Slavery›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Death›Murder | Money›As motive | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Interracial | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Corinth, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Allusion, Geographical›Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Revision
Flags in the Dust, 166 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Abraham
Requiem for a Nun, 132 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Theatrical effect
The Sound and the Fury, 107 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 134 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Nickname
The Town, 149 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Banking | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 157 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Investing | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Moral›Purification | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Character›Greed | Money›As motive | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 248 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Money›As motive | Money›Owed | Objects›Broom | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Narrative›Reported narration
The Town, 259 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Law›Lawsuit
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Payoff | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Diction›Malapropism | Diction›Rural vernacular
The Town, 274 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: History›Frontier outlawry | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Money›As motive | Morals›Morality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense
The Town, 294 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bank
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses