Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Open secret
Description
Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Escape / Departing through a window
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Old insult (abiding affront)
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus | Entertainment›Traveling show | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Separate spaces | Gender›Sexual double standard | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Propriety
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Chivalry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Domestic›Sewing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: 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
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Narrative›Communal narrative
Actions: Economic›Barter | Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Place›Country store
Actions: Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Trembling | Emotional›Outrage | Moral›Fraud | Moral›Judgmental | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Food›Race | Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal