"Fool About a Horse", 124 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2016-08-26 15:40
Text: 
"Fool About a Horse"
Location: 
Pat Stamper Camp Site in "Fool About a Horse" (Location)
Page Number: 
124
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
So we didn't git to town until that afternoon.
Page Event Ends: 
126
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Jim
Pap
Pat Stamper
Unnamed Boy Narrator
Characters Mentioned: 
Hoke
Beasley Kemp
Uncle Ike McCaslin
Herman Short
Jody Varner
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Thursday, July 8, 1880 to Saturday, July 31, 1880
Summary: 

Despite Pap's own carefully crafted scheme to recoup his own "honor" and that of Yoknapatawpha, "Pat Stamper shows how come he was Pat Stamper" by outmaneuvering him in an intricately described swap of horses and mules (125).

Chronological Order: 
12.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Horse-Trading, Scheming, Naivete, Mock-Heroism, Honor, Overreaching
Environment:
Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions:
Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Scheming
Themes and Motifs:
Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Character›Pride | Objects›Tobacco | Values›Honor
Relationships:
Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics:
Diction›Racist term | Tone›Mock-heroic

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