Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity
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Tagged Events
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
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Technology›Lighting
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Lying | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Listening | Violent›Killing of animals
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Trans-regional | Gender›Chivalry | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Home›Distance from home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age | Alcohol›Manhood | Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
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: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›Mankind
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Interpretation of symbol
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | History›Awareness of / Being in history
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Actions: Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Health and Illness›Drugs
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Outlander
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Outlander
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person plural passim
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | War›Defeat | War›Homefront
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Chivalry
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Books | Texts›Anthropological
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Borneo
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
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Aesthetics: Diction›Derogatory socio-economic term
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Colorism | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
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: 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: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Race | Region›The South | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Hurried | Mental›Believing | Mental›Envisioning | Work›Architect | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Pretension | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Nationality›Foreigners
Themes and Motifs: Art›Artistic creation | Chaos/Order›Creation | Character›Artist | Character›Hubris | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Home›Dwelling | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Time›Duration of time
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Description›Grotesque | Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
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
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
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: 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: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Female | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Character›Provincialism
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Moral›Corrupting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Cultural Identity›Puritan | Economy›Wealth | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography | 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: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Moral›Corrupting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›White race | Religion›Godhead | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Racialized | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Hair | Character›Gambler | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Evolution | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Seed
Actions: Verbal›Naming self
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›And race | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Gender›Bachelor | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Courtship | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Slave trading
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Olfactory›Smelling black
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Food›Biscuits | Food›Buttermilk | Food›Greens | Food›Meat | Food›Race | Race›Stereotype: smell
Relationships: Interracial›Etiquette
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Car | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | History›Immigration | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Public›Town Square
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Vest | Cultural Identity›American | Entertainment›Radio
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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: Cultural Identity›American | War›Civil War | War›Spanish American War
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Multiculturalism | Progress›Technological | War›World War II
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Education›Negro education | Government›State laws and regulations | History›Reconstruction
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place | Place›City | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Domestic›Cooking | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Shoes | Crime›Making whisky | Crime›Prostitution | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›Hill country | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Virginity
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Precocious | Class›Power | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Work›Traveling salesman
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Food›Candy
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›And nationality | Gender›Gentleman | History›European Revolutions of 1848 | Race›Aryan | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Art›And civilization
Actions: Military›Enlistment
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›And nationality
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Military›Enlistment
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | War›Draft
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Integration
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Nationality›English / British | Religion›Martyrdom | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Morals›Faith
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Paris | Allusion, Geographical›Poland | Allusion, Historical›Churchill, Winston | Allusion, Historical›Hitler, Adolf | Allusion, Historical›Lenin, Vladimir | Allusion, Literary›Frankenstein | Narrative›First-person | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Politics›Democracy
Environment: Atmospheric›Sexual | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Perceptual›Misreading | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Education›Trade school | Government›Corruption | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Religion›Church service | War›Spanish American War | War›World War I
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Scolding | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Legal›Arrest | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Clothes›Veil | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self | Technology›Automobile
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Tone›Sarcastic
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
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Cultural Identity›American | Economy›Economic speculation | Ethnicity›Jewish | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insect boll weevil | Money
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Resentment | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Following | Movement›Sneaking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Economy›Economic speculation | Ethnicity›Jewish | Progress›Telegraph | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Gasoline | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, derby | Clothes›Shoes | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Colored people as acceptable terminology | Race›Race as a form of behavior | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Region›North | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Reflection
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
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Moral›Deception | Physical›Saluting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Education›Graduation | Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race›Uncle Tom | Ritual›Holiday | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R. | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Community›Columbus Day | Community›Parade | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Luggage | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black | Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Princeton University | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | Allusion, Literary›Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Allusion, Literary›Uncle Tom's Cabin | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Monument | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Confederate monument unveiled
Actions: Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Crime›Gambling | Crime›Prostitution | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Law›Police
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Community›Preserving order
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Character›Provincialism
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Education›Being well read / erudite | Politics›Election
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Grammatically incorrect
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›College | Education›Virginia | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Education›Female education | War›Civil War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Emotional›Defeat | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Female stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›College | Education›Need to be educated
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Donne, John | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Plantation house
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Identity, Cultural›Southern stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Objects›Car
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Religion›Providence | Religion›Relationship with God | War›Defeat | War›Homefront
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Chivalry | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Gender›Men vs women | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Gender›Southern woman | History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | Sexuality›Incest | War›Women
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Shiloh
Environment: Auditory›Train sound
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Progress›Regional | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Lying | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Listening | Violent›Killing of animals
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Trans-regional | Gender›Chivalry | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial