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Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
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
2258 Themes and Motifs Character Opportunism
4606 Themes and Motifs Character Persistence
2332 Themes and Motifs Character Personality change
2113 Themes and Motifs Character Playfulness
4604 Themes and Motifs Character Popularity
2080 Themes and Motifs Character Power
3641 Themes and Motifs Character Precision
816 Themes and Motifs Character Predatory
1235 Themes and Motifs Character Pride
2648 Themes and Motifs Character Principle
2368 Themes and Motifs Character Provincialism
4903 Themes and Motifs Character Purity
5431 Themes and Motifs Character Reactionary
2235 Themes and Motifs Character Recklessness
2308 Themes and Motifs Character Regal
3537 Themes and Motifs Character Reliability
2649 Themes and Motifs Character Reputation
2108 Themes and Motifs Character Resolve
1226 Themes and Motifs Character Responsibility
2024 Themes and Motifs Character Ruthless
3896 Themes and Motifs Character Scoundrel
5252 Themes and Motifs Character Self-deception
4350 Themes and Motifs Character Self-reliance
4478 Themes and Motifs Character Self-righteousness
4365 Themes and Motifs Character Shrewdness
2358 Themes and Motifs Character Sophistication
4484 Themes and Motifs Character stoic
4861 Themes and Motifs Character Stubborn
4545 Themes and Motifs Character Stupid
4479 Themes and Motifs Character Superhuman strength
2088 Themes and Motifs Character Swagger
1926 Themes and Motifs Character Teetotaler
2494 Themes and Motifs Character Tenderness
1227 Themes and Motifs Character Trust
4752 Themes and Motifs Character Unknowable
2104 Themes and Motifs Character Unruliness
2025 Themes and Motifs Character Vanity
2848 Themes and Motifs Character Violent
1196 Themes and Motifs Character Work ethic
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
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
5587 Cultural Issues Clothes And age

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