Themes and Motifs: Past
Child Terms
- And monuments
- Anxiety about|Resistance to change
- As explanatory
- Discovering it
- Family history
- Freedom from it
- Grander than present
- Historical wrong
- Innocence
- Old days
- Parental
- Past in present
- Past vs present
- Personal past
- Prehistory
- Quest to recover
- Recent past
- Relics
- Repetition
- Traumatic
- Unknown/concealed past
- Yoknapatawpha founders
Tagged Events
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Unemployment
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Great Depression
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Government | Group Mentality›Communal story | History›Civil War | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Community›Local legends | Naming›Renaming | Past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic | Physical›Burning | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Past | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Gun | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | History›Founding fathers
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Old days
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Actions: Interaction, Social›Conspiracy | Verbal›Provoking
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Exile›Driven away | Inheritance›Traits | Objects›Sword | Past›Repetition
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Government›Governor | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Home | Naming›Place name | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Social decline | Government›Governor
Themes and Motifs: Death›Eulogy | Memory›Forgetting | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Social decline | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Naming›Child's name | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Indiana | Recurring Episodes›Caddy's wedding
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Year›Spring
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab's war wound
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›De Spain creates camp
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Prejudice›Racism
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Psychological›Disembodiment
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Accounts
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Embedded text, cursive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mosquitoes | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Past›Recent past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Fury | Mental›Realization | Physical›Hammering | Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Squirrel | Objects›Gun | Past›Recent past | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Place›Decayed plantation | Place›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Objects›European in U.S. | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Strip searching | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Past›Parental
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Interaction, Social›Elopement | Interaction, Social›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Woods | Place›Quarters | Place›Road | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Repetition
Relationships: Familial›Widower | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Cultural Issues: Ritual
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Making a case
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›And an animal | Past›Past in present
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Smoking habit
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Past›Family history
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Government›Taxes, local
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Competition | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Past | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Snake | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Compass | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Hunting›Turkey hunting | Verbal›Listen
Cultural Issues: Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Turkey | Past›Old days | Story-telling
Relationships: Ancestral
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Values›Moral authority
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Past›Old days
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Food›Ice-cream | Health and Illness›Drugs
Themes and Motifs: Past›Personal past
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Economy›Property | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›As character | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Character›Swagger | Morals›Hypocrisy | Past›Discovering it | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Engagement | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Narrative›Withholding | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Plantation
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Deception | Movement›Riding | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Respectability | History›Dispossessing Indians | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Stranger | Exile›Driven away | Naming›Place name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Personal past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Social›Isolation
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Riding | Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Play›Gambling | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Birthright | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Consumption | Economy›Gambling | Identity, Personal›Background | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Character›Opportunism | Character›Recklessness | Determinism›Vs human agency | Money›As motive | Money›Ill-gotten | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Deception | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Gender›Gentleman | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal document | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Moral›Prohibiting | Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Requesting | Violent›Homicide
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Law›Inheritance refusal | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Character›Pride | Death›Murder | Determinism›Fated | Determinism›Lack of choice | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Objects›Corpse | Past›Past in present | Past›Traumatic | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Dysfunctional | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Wedding | Romantic›Death | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Anaphora | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Summary | Style›List | Tone›Elegiac
Actions: Emotional›Self-consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Moral›Judgmental | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Respectability | Crime›Gambling | Law›Wedding license | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Determinism›Fated | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Meaning | Past›Historical wrong | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Adversarial
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause
Environment: Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Guinevere
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Clothes›Driving gear | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Redemption | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Crowd | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Picture/image | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Audience response
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ripple | Figures of Speech›Water | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Narrative›Irony
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Past›Repetition | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Olfactory›Evoking memory | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Snow
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›New England
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Texts›Letters | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Birdsong | Natural›Sky | Place›Church | Public›Church steeple | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Mental›Flashback | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Christianity | Religion›Sabbath
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Pigeons | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Continuity | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Paint | Metafictional›Painting | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Tone›Nostalgic | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Place›Blacksmith shop | Place›Church | Place›Hotel | Place›Livery stable | Place›Saloon | Public›Courthouse | Public›Store | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Curiosity | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling by name
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Economy›Commerce | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Lady | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Creating an Other | Race›Etiquette | Religion›Church service | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Fan | Objects›Parasol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Time›Past
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Institutional›Church-Town | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ancient Greek Chorus | Description›Character portrait | Description›Location portrait | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Musical imagery | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›List | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Time›Duration of time
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Suspense | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Actions: Bodily›Losing weight
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Body›Eyes | Body›Thinness | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Clay | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Past›Unknown/concealed past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Hotel
Actions: Mental›Inquiry | Movement›Getting closer | Movement›Stopping | Perceptual›Investigating | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Crowding | Physical›Locking a door | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Reticence | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Community›Opinion | Community›Stranger | Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Social›Adversarial | Social›Crowds
Aesthetics: Narrative›Summary | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Retelling | Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Time of Year›Confederate Decoration Day
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dress | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Community›Decoration Day | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Medal | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Drawing room
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative | Time›Simultaneity of time
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Natural›Trees | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Perceptual›Familiarity
Cultural Issues: Class›Professional
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Olfactory›Camp-fire smoke
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling | Time›Simultaneity of time
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sitting | Domestic›Camping | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Lending Money | Hunting›Deer hunting | Mental›Calculation | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Wrestling | Play›Card playing | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Economy›Dowry | Gender›All-male space | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Home›Improvements | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Auditory›Howling | Place›Decayed plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Olfactory›Cigar
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Silence
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Place›Hotel | Public›Road | Public›Street | Public›Town Square
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Communication›Silence | Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Legal›Warrant | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Following | Movement›Horse | Movement›Procession | Movement›Riding | Movement›Stopping | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Community collective | Law›Warrant | Politics›Public opinion
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Character›Resolve | Character›Unknowable | Community›Opinion | Community›Posse | Objects›Basket | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Public›Street | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Appearance›Surface | Character›Cautious | Character›Swagger | Community›Opinion | Past›Past in present | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›June | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain | Narrative›Repetition
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Proud | Interaction, Private›Coercion | Legal›Release of prisoner
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bravery | Character›Pride | Character›Unknowable | Character›Vanity | Community›Opinion | Community›Wedding | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-son in law | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Withholding | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Education›Harvard | History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Learning | Mental›Planning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Ambitious | Character›Vanity | Determinism›Fated | Meaning›Mystery | Past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Time›Future
Environment: Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Teasing
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Thimble | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Trauma
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Place›Plantation | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Anxiety | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Driving
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Isolation
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Height (tall, short) | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Chaos/Order | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Anticipation | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Physical resemblances
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Mask | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Riding | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Widow | Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal ownership | Law›Property | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Retribution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Local legends | Death›Future | Death›Spousal | Determinism›Fated | Home›New home | Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Collective memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Past | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Figures of Speech›Breath | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Origin | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Chivalry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Environment: Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Supernatural›Telepathy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Desert island | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Forgiveness | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Gender›Female body | Gender›Women | Religion›Damnation | Religion›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Flesh | Body›Voice | Death›Response to | Objects›Photograph | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Obsession | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Niobe | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Gentleman's agreement | Movement›Riding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | Gender›Women as sacred | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Opinion | Community›Supportive | Morals›Honor | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Potential | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Struggling | Violent›Intimidation
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Disappointment
Cultural Issues: War›Noncombatant | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Repetition
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hunting clothes | Education›Princeton | Hunting and Fishing›Trophy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible | Objects›Photograph | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Civil War | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Grander than present
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Argument
Environment: Olfactory
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Pipe | Past›Prehistory | Supernatural›Ghost
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Past
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Carriage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Green eyeshade | Progress
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Death›Afterlife | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Progress›Agricultural
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lawnmower | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Environment: Atmospheric›Candlelight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Hosting
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Olfactory›Must
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Lace | War›Civil War | War›Mexican | War›Spanish American War | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Objects›Bible | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Sword | Past›Family history | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Old Bailey
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Physical›Crawling
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›In childbirth | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Skull | Past›Family history | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Fugitive
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Verbal›Naming self
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Defiance
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship | Social›Neighbor
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Quarters | Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Footprint | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Slavery›Fugitive
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Ledger
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Trophy | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wildlife
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Memory›Remembering | Past›Grander than present | Recurring Tropes›Killing first deer/marked with blood | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Past›Historical wrong
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Familial›Extended family
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Government›Usurpation | Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Patriarch | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Widow | Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Naming slaves
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Fox hunting | Physical›Pursuit
Relationships: Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Gender›Bachelor | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Courtship | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Slave trading
Actions: Hunting›Quail hunting
Cultural Issues: Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Past›Old days
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality | Slavery›Quarters
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Pony | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Wrong name | Past›Past in present
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Monday
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Store clothes | Segregation›Daily life
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Past›Past vs present
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Anticipation
Environment: Place›Office | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Saturday morning
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Suicide
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it | Texts›Novel
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Themes and Motifs: Body›Pregnancy | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Actions: Communication›Graffiti
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Past›Discovering it | Past›Past in present | Texts›Graffiti
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Cincinnatus
Actions: Communication›Graffiti
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Texts›Graffiti
Environment: Time of Year›Confederate Decoration Day
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Verbal›Rebel yell
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Monument | Past›And monuments
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Burnside, Ambrose | Allusion, Historical›Grant, Ulysses S. | Allusion, Historical›Hooker, Joseph | Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" | Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Historical›Longstreet, James | Allusion, Historical›McClellan, George B. | Allusion, Historical›Pope, John | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Confederate monument unveiled
Actions: Emotional›Indignation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gone With the Wind | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›Local laws and regulations | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Values›Imagination
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Allusion, Historical›Bernhardt, Sarah | Allusion, Historical›Duse, Eleonora | Allusion, Historical›Emperor Maximilian | Allusion, Historical›Lind, Jenny | Allusion, Historical›Mark Twain | Allusion, Historical›Mistinguett | Allusion, Mythical›Erinys | Narrative›Alternative story | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Time of Day›Six o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Waiting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Prostitution | Modernity›Interwar years
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›Past in present | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Repression | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Mumbling | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Crime›Prostitution | Entertainment›Movies | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Tutor-student
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Old vs new selves
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Past›Past in present | Values›Honor | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hamlet | Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Natural›Prehistoric forces
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Prehuman landscape | Religion›Deist
Themes and Motifs: Past›Prehistory
Cultural Issues: Progress›Historical | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Repetition
Environment: Place›Official office | Time of Day›Two o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit
Themes and Motifs: Naming›And caste | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›As explanatory
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Theatrical | Tone›Sarcastic
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Hiding | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Morals›Justice | Past›Quest to recover
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Place›Decayed plantation
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Past›Past in present
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Grant, Ulysses S. | Allusion, Historical›Vicksburg
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Bodily›Barefooted | Violent›Domestic violence
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Poverty | Law›Execution | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Objects›Shotgun | Objects›Toys | Past›Past in present
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Race›Sundown town
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tobacco | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab Snopes Horse trading
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Economy›Labor unions | Economy›Prices | Food›Bread | Food›Coca-Cola | Politics›Democrat | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Monument | Past›Past in present
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Objects›Monument | Past›Family history | Values›Family honor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Eula's medallion unveiled
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Growing population
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Economy›Banking | Progress›Cars | Progress›Social | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Themes and Motifs: Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: History›Founding fathers | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Emotional›Proud
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Saloon | Public›Sidewalk | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Verbal›Explaining
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation | Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Sheriff | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Morals›Chivalry | Naming›Nickname | Past›Innocence
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Public›Street | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Loft | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Otherworldly | Public›Bridge | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gasoline | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Public›Alley | Public›Road | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp | Natural›Hills | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Crib / Cradle | Objects›Fire | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Inferiority
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Equality | Class›Gentility | Government›Governor | Religion›Sin | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Morality | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Figures of Speech›Poisoned | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Dew | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Mint julep | Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Aristocratic posing | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Southern woman | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Plant mint | Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Old maid | Style›Unfinished sentence
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Self-pity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Memory›Remembering | Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Camphor
Actions: Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Religion›Bible
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence of sound | Death›Suicide | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Thursday
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Marching | Verbal›Conversation | Work
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, stovepipe | Clothes›Uniform | History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Prejudice›Racism | Ritual›Birthday | Ritual›Commemoration | Slavery›Abolition | War›Civil War | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness | Community›Crowd | Community›Decoration Day | Community›Parade | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flag | Past›Family history
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Public›School | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Scolding | Interaction, Private›Teacher-student | Interaction, Social›Teacher-class of students | Mental›Counting | Mental›Day-dreaming | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Education›Primary school | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | History›Explorers
Themes and Motifs: Body›Brain / mind | Body›Fingers | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Stomach/belly | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Khaki | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Silk | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Description›Color blue | Description›Color bronze | Description›Color brown | Diction›Misogynistic wording | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Clothes›Garter | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Circus | Gender›Marriage | Region›The South | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Money›Dowry | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner | Time of Year›Wednesday
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Coming of age | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | Race›Aryan | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Religion›Atheism | Religion›Baptist | Religion›Episcopal | Religion›Judaism | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Presbyterian | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | Migration›Intraregional migration | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Actions: Movement›Migration | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Past›Family history | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Domestic Space›Office
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Relief | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›December
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Snobbery | Social›Social organizations
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor