Themes and Motifs: Home Improvements

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"Pantaloon in Black", 240 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements | Objects›Stove
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Absalom, Absalom!, 30 (Event)
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
Go Down, Moses, 131 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements | Objects›Stove
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Go Down, Moses, 286 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Arrangements
Go Down, Moses, 44 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Improvements
The Mansion, 217 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Repair
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Death›Of parent | Home›Improvements | Money›Ill-gotten