Themes and Motifs: Community Secrecy
Tagged Events
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Work›Horse training
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Guilt | Moral›Aiding and abetting | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Haunted by past | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Gender
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Enlistment | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: War›Going to war
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Fort Sumter | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Death›Moving a dead body
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Actions: Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Tie | Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Politics›Election | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Art›Photograph | Character›Provincialism | Community›Secrecy | Time›Long passage of time
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: Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Unaware
Relationships: Sexual›Inappropriate