Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
1034 Cultural Issues Clothes Sunday clothes
1047 Cultural Issues Clothes Sunday shoes
4929 Cultural Issues Clothes Tartan
4203 Cultural Issues Clothes Tennis shoes
2443 Cultural Issues Clothes Tie
2316 Cultural Issues Clothes Trousseau
1375 Cultural Issues Clothes Underclothes, female
1374 Cultural Issues Clothes Underclothes, male
555 Cultural Issues Clothes Undressing
891 Cultural Issues Clothes Uniform
4869 Cultural Issues Clothes Urban
1670 Cultural Issues Clothes Veil
1744 Cultural Issues Clothes Vest
5156 Cultural Issues Clothes Watch chain
1899 Cultural Issues Clothes Wedding dress
4149 Cultural Issues Clothes Wet clothes
621 Cultural Issues Clothes Women
3572 Cultural Issues Clothes Work clothes
4845 Cultural Issues Clothes Yankee uniform
635 Cultural Issues Class Ambition
2311 Cultural Issues Class Aristocratic posing
2338 Cultural Issues Class Birthright
1623 Cultural Issues Class Blood
3624 Cultural Issues Class British nobility
4390 Cultural Issues Class Caste system
4248 Cultural Issues Class Class conflict
644 Cultural Issues Class Class consciousness
2007 Cultural Issues Class Declasse

Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers

2698 Cultural Issues Class Dehumanization
2678 Cultural Issues Class Disruption
1043 Cultural Issues Class Elite
2898 Cultural Issues Class Equality

Whenever there is a leveling force that allows different classes to meet on an equal playing field. In this particular example it is the horse race in The Reivers in which class and status don't matter to the observers.

3639 Cultural Issues Class Etiquette
4908 Cultural Issues Class French nobility
2989 Cultural Issues Class Gentility
2009 Cultural Issues Class Homelessness
3775 Cultural Issues Class Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
624 Cultural Issues Class Middle
3300 Cultural Issues Class noblesse-oblige
4282 Cultural Issues Class Planter vs farmer
1074 Cultural Issues Class Power
3664 Cultural Issues Class Pretension
1045 Cultural Issues Class Professional
562 Cultural Issues Class Respectability
1357 Cultural Issues Class Snopesism
5600 Cultural Issues Class Social decline
3452 Cultural Issues Class Social mobility
1258 Cultural Issues Class Status, low
4137 Cultural Issues Class Town v. country/farm
2513 Cultural Issues Class White trash
1174 Cultural Issues Class Working
2725 Relationships Civic Charity
1397 Relationships Civic child protection
2868 Relationships Civic Pillar of the community
2461 Relationships Civic Postal carrier-community
2754 Relationships Civic Voting
538 Themes and Motifs Character Ambitious
5519 Themes and Motifs Character Amoral
2022 Themes and Motifs Character Artist
2865 Themes and Motifs Character Assertive
2359 Themes and Motifs Character Barbarism
739 Themes and Motifs Character Bargainer
3880 Themes and Motifs Character Blackguard
3457 Themes and Motifs Character Bookishness
4259 Themes and Motifs Character Bravado
3668 Themes and Motifs Character Bravery
3855 Themes and Motifs Character Cautious
3536 Themes and Motifs Character Childlike
2266 Themes and Motifs Character Comforter
4345 Themes and Motifs Character Constitutive moment
5425 Themes and Motifs Character Conventional
4362 Themes and Motifs Character Conviction
3671 Themes and Motifs Character Courteous
2741 Themes and Motifs Character Coward
2904 Themes and Motifs Character Cruel
5534 Themes and Motifs Character Curmudgeonly
3456 Themes and Motifs Character Duty
727 Themes and Motifs Character Fool|Foolishness
2020 Themes and Motifs Character Forbearance
2403 Themes and Motifs Character Gambler
5382 Themes and Motifs Character Generous
2739 Themes and Motifs Character Greed
4460 Themes and Motifs Character Helpless
1224 Themes and Motifs Character Honesty
5098 Themes and Motifs Character Hubris
4544 Themes and Motifs Character Humility
4966 Themes and Motifs Character Hypocrisy
2679 Themes and Motifs Character Impotence

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC

3253 Themes and Motifs Character Impulsiveness
1187 Themes and Motifs Character Independence
4917 Themes and Motifs Character Indomitable
4329 Themes and Motifs Character Inexperience
2407 Themes and Motifs Character Inherited traits
647 Themes and Motifs Character Innocence
2334 Themes and Motifs Character Integrity
2696 Themes and Motifs Character Intelligence
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
1107 Themes and Motifs Character Maturity
2389 Themes and Motifs Character Naivety
2856 Themes and Motifs Character Noisiness

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