Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1224 Honesty Character
1226 Responsibility Character
1227 Trust Character
1235 Pride Character
1242 Departure Arrivals/Departures
1243 Complexion Appearance
1245 Injustice Morals
1247 Ax Objects
1252 Filthy lucre Money

When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW

1256 Going fast Recurring Tropes
1259 Tomorrow and tomorrow Recurring Tropes
1260 Bugs Animals
1261 Flesh Body
1268 Candle Objects
1280 Return home Arrivals/Departures
1282 Money|Wealth Absence/Loss
1283 Home as prison Home
1297 Recovery Money
1301 Paranoia Psychological
1303 Parental Past
1305 Estranged Home
1310 Madness Psychological
1320 Chivalry Morals
1322 Past in present Past
1324 Metaphorical elephant Animals
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1225 Love Emotional
1228 Ascent Economic
1230 Riding Movement
1234 Speculation Mental
1236 Feeding Domestic
1237 Childbirth Bodily
1238 Marriage Legal
1239 Dying Bodily
1240 Burial Physical
1241 Quitting job Work
1246 Carriage Movement
1248 Assault Violent
1250 Hitting Physical
1251 Apprehending Physical
1253 Shooting Violent
1269 Warning Verbal
1273 Complaining Verbal
1277 Vengeful Emotional
1281 Satisfaction Emotional
1289 School recess Play
1292 Terror Emotional
1293 Vomiting Bodily
1294 Shame Emotional
1299 Investigating Perceptual
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
1302 Strip searching Perceptual
1304 Family history Verbal
1311 Attraction Emotional
1312 Buying a house Economic
1314 Dreaming Mental
1316 Searching Physical
1317 Courting Interaction, Private
1318 Fainting Bodily
1319 Promising Verbal
Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1229 February Time of Year
1255 Highway Public
1270 Tavern Place
1276 Seedy parts of town Place
1290 Playground Place
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1231 Unspecified sickness Health and Illness
1232 Legal document Law
1244 Custody Law
1249 Legal authority Law
1254 Drunkenness Alcohol
1257 American Nationality
1258 Status, low Class
1262 Mentorship Education
1272 Masculine woman Gender
1275 Implied shooting Violence
1284 Appearance of Sexuality
1285 Movies Entertainment
1286 Magazines Mass Media
1287 Movies Mass Media
1288 Childhood Age
1291 Child abuse Violence
1295 Anemia Health and Illness
1296 Medical advice Health and Illness
1306 Maturing Age
1309 Country to city Progress

To capture the movement of people from the countryside to more urban areas, including moving from Frenchman's Bend to Jefferson, as Zilphia Gant's mother and so many Snopeses do. SR

1313 Buying a house Economy
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1233 Desertion Marital
1263 Mentorship Social
1264 Mentorship Familial
1271 Mother-daughter passim Familial
1298 Childhood friends Friendship
1321 Civil marriage Marital
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort descending Term Parent Description
1265 France Allusion, Geographical
1266 Gulliver's Travels Allusion, Literary
1267 Unfinished sentence Style
1274 Coleridge, Samuel Allusion, Literary
1278 Fate Allusion, Mythical
1279 Vestal Allusion, Mythical
1308 Dots Typography/Orthography

This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR

1315 Freudian Symbolism
1323 Shadows Symbolism

Pages