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Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
2235 Themes and Motifs Character Recklessness
2258 Themes and Motifs Character Opportunism
2266 Themes and Motifs Character Comforter
2308 Themes and Motifs Character Regal
2332 Themes and Motifs Character Personality change
2334 Themes and Motifs Character Integrity
2358 Themes and Motifs Character Sophistication
2359 Themes and Motifs Character Barbarism
2368 Themes and Motifs Character Provincialism
2389 Themes and Motifs Character Naivety
2403 Themes and Motifs Character Gambler
2407 Themes and Motifs Character Inherited traits
2494 Themes and Motifs Character Tenderness
2648 Themes and Motifs Character Principle
2649 Themes and Motifs Character Reputation
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

2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
2696 Themes and Motifs Character Intelligence
2739 Themes and Motifs Character Greed
2741 Themes and Motifs Character Coward
2848 Themes and Motifs Character Violent
2856 Themes and Motifs Character Noisiness
2865 Themes and Motifs Character Assertive
2904 Themes and Motifs Character Cruel
3253 Themes and Motifs Character Impulsiveness
3456 Themes and Motifs Character Duty
3457 Themes and Motifs Character Bookishness
3536 Themes and Motifs Character Childlike
3537 Themes and Motifs Character Reliability
3641 Themes and Motifs Character Precision
3668 Themes and Motifs Character Bravery
3671 Themes and Motifs Character Courteous
3855 Themes and Motifs Character Cautious
3880 Themes and Motifs Character Blackguard
3896 Themes and Motifs Character Scoundrel
4259 Themes and Motifs Character Bravado
4329 Themes and Motifs Character Inexperience
4345 Themes and Motifs Character Constitutive moment
4350 Themes and Motifs Character Self-reliance
4362 Themes and Motifs Character Conviction
4365 Themes and Motifs Character Shrewdness
4460 Themes and Motifs Character Helpless
4478 Themes and Motifs Character Self-righteousness
4479 Themes and Motifs Character Superhuman strength
4484 Themes and Motifs Character stoic
4544 Themes and Motifs Character Humility
4545 Themes and Motifs Character Stupid
4604 Themes and Motifs Character Popularity
4606 Themes and Motifs Character Persistence
4752 Themes and Motifs Character Unknowable
4861 Themes and Motifs Character Stubborn
4903 Themes and Motifs Character Purity
4917 Themes and Motifs Character Indomitable
4966 Themes and Motifs Character Hypocrisy
5098 Themes and Motifs Character Hubris
5252 Themes and Motifs Character Self-deception
5382 Themes and Motifs Character Generous
5425 Themes and Motifs Character Conventional
5431 Themes and Motifs Character Reactionary
5519 Themes and Motifs Character Amoral
5534 Themes and Motifs Character Curmudgeonly
1397 Relationships Civic child protection
2461 Relationships Civic Postal carrier-community
2725 Relationships Civic Charity
2754 Relationships Civic Voting
2868 Relationships Civic Pillar of the community
562 Cultural Issues Class Respectability
624 Cultural Issues Class Middle
635 Cultural Issues Class Ambition
644 Cultural Issues Class Class consciousness
1043 Cultural Issues Class Elite
1045 Cultural Issues Class Professional
1074 Cultural Issues Class Power
1174 Cultural Issues Class Working
1258 Cultural Issues Class Status, low
1357 Cultural Issues Class Snopesism
1623 Cultural Issues Class Blood
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

2009 Cultural Issues Class Homelessness
2311 Cultural Issues Class Aristocratic posing
2338 Cultural Issues Class Birthright
2513 Cultural Issues Class White trash
2678 Cultural Issues Class Disruption
2698 Cultural Issues Class Dehumanization
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.

2989 Cultural Issues Class Gentility
3300 Cultural Issues Class noblesse-oblige
3452 Cultural Issues Class Social mobility
3624 Cultural Issues Class British nobility
3639 Cultural Issues Class Etiquette
3664 Cultural Issues Class Pretension
3775 Cultural Issues Class Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
4137 Cultural Issues Class Town v. country/farm
4248 Cultural Issues Class Class conflict
4282 Cultural Issues Class Planter vs farmer
4390 Cultural Issues Class Caste system
4908 Cultural Issues Class French nobility
5600 Cultural Issues Class Social decline
549 Cultural Issues Clothes Apron
555 Cultural Issues Clothes Undressing

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