Actions: Economic
Child Terms
- Accounting
- Ascent
- Asking for money
- Auction
- Banking
- Bankrupcy
- Bargaining
- Barter
- Blacksmithing
- Bootlegging
- Borrowing
- Bribing
- Buying
- Buying a house
- Buying a shop or store
- Buying on credit
- Buying timber
- Carpentry
- Child support
- Competition
- Delivery
- Earning Money
- Eviction
- Factory labor
- Frugality
- Getting a receipt
- Gifting
- Hiring / employing / offering a job
- Horse trading
- Impounding
- Indebtedness
- Insurance payment
- Investing
- Lending Money
- Offering to buy
- Offering to sell
- Partnership
- Paying
- Purchase
- Rationing
- Receiving money
- Renting
- Saving money
- Scamming
- Scheming
- Selling
- Selling a house or place
- Selling land
- Settling up
- Sex as payment
- Share-cropping|Tenantry
- Shopping
- Stock trading
- Store owner
- Taking without paying
- Trading
- Transactional
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
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Gun | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race | Gender›Masculinity
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Interaction, Social›Competition
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Laid-by season
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Body | Law›Regulation | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Appearance›Complexion | Objects›Poison
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Flag
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes | Gender›Clothing | Group Mentality›Community collective
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | War›Aerial combat | War›Military awards | War›Women
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Amiens, France | Allusion, Historical›Cambrai
Environment: Domestic Space›House
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
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Government›National authority | Government›Usurpation | Group Mentality›Political solidarity | History›Dispossessing Indians | History›Indian Removal | Identity, Cultural›National | Ritual›Dueling | War›Indian / Native American wars
Environment: Place›Indian agency
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Play›Gambling | Work›Government | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Government›US Bureau of Indian Affairs
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: History›Dispossessing Indians | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Banking | History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Environment: Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
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
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Wedding
Actions: Economic›Saving money | Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social decline | Education›Trade school | Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dysfunctional | Interracial›Master-servant
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed
Environment: Natural›Creek | Place›Country store | Public›Blacksmith
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Auction | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Whispering | Work›Blacksmith
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Story-telling
Actions: Economic›Impounding
Actions: Economic›Impounding | Verbal›Threat
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Relocation
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space | Place›Houses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Music | Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Musical instrument | Values›Success
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Character›Predatory
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Law›Warrant | Politics›City government
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fraud | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Alcohol›Abstinence | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Health and Illness›Smoking habit | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Environment: Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Aaahhhhhhh | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Limping | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Food›Gum | Law›Aviation | War›Veterans
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Stereotypical Jewish accent
Cultural Issues: Economy›Bargaining
Themes and Motifs: Money›Stingy with money
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Interpretation | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Aesthetics: Interpretation›Explanatory passage
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Deception | Physical›Sitting
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Conflict
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Ownership
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Saving money | Verbal›Badgering
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Embarrassment
Cultural Issues: Economy›Bargaining
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Disruption
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Character›Pride | Objects›Tobacco | Values›Honor
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Tone›Mock-heroic
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Embarrassment
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Wanting a drink
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Economic›Borrowing
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Race›Subverting a stereotype
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Panama hat
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Refusal | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Disagreeing
Actions: Economic›Trading | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance›Inscrutable | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Place›Decayed house | Place›Decayed plantation
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Digging | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Coin | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Birmingham, Alabama | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Actions: Economic›Paying | Interaction, Private›Rejection | Verbal›Speculation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Don Quixote
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Accounts
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Embedded text, cursive
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Values›Success
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reality
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Interspecies›Man-horse
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Hate | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Local legends
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Environment: Place›Spring | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Movement›Driving | Movement›Getting closer
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Bookishness | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Economy›Rural sales
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Objects›Sewing machine
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Economy›Sales contract
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Environment: Place›Country store | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Emotional›Impatience
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Scamming | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Domestic | Labor›Farming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Dowsing | Perceptual›Spying
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Stock trading | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Environment: Public›Filling Station
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Relocation
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Environment: Public›Railroad tracks | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Receiving money
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie Hait cashes check
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Law›Trespassing
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Paying | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Scamming | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Fear
Relationships: Familial›Surrogate | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Economic›Gifting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Usurpation | Health and Illness›Obesity
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | War›Glorification
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Hunting›Fox hunting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Language›Grammatically incorrect | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Barter | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Government›Depression-era programs | Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Labor
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being late / tardiness
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Government›Taxes, local
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Religion›Lay preacher
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Mental›Remembering
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Cultural Issues: Gender
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre | Narrative›Reported narration | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Escape from confinement | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Transactional | Physical›Confining | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Fireworks
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Moral›Stealing | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Escape from confinement | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Stock trading
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | War›Profiting from war
Themes and Motifs: Money›Cash | Texts›Military communications
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mottstown | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Military›Reconnaissance
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Alias | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Region›Hapless Yankees
Environment: Olfactory›Camp-fire smoke | Olfactory›Food | Place›Military camp
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Actions: Economic›Ascent | Emotional›Love | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Sawmilling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Honesty | Character›Responsibility | Character›Trust | Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Economic›Renting | Verbal›Storytelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Economic›Trading | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Farming | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Economy›Wages
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Paying | Economic›Trading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Mass Media›Telephone
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Sibling | Social›Adversarial | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Love | Physical›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Mass Media›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Determinism›Lack of choice | Time
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Place›Country vs city | Public›Highway
Cultural Issues: Technology›Elevator
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Legal›Warrant | Verbal›Cursing | Work›Dismissing from work
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›July
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Asking for money | Physical›Meddling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Law›Wedding license
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Language›Profanity
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Religion›Rebirth
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Selling a house or place | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Insanity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Death›Anticipation of death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Adversarial
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Law›Aviation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Economic›Store owner
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Adult-adolescent
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus
Actions: Economic›Store owner | Verbal›Command
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Persistence over time | Slavery›Quarters
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Domestic›Child-rearing | Economic›Indebtedness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery
Actions: Economic›Receiving money
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Economy›Wealth | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Moral›Exploitation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fire | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Economical | Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Balance
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Flood
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Indebtedness | Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Yelling
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Confession | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Bargaining
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Corpse | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Matched team of horses or mules
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Character›Helpless | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Sacrifice
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Exaggeration
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Social›Neighbor
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Graphophone
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Phonograph | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Coercion | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Parent-child
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Style›List
Actions: Economic›Transactional | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Livery stable
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Impulsiveness | Character›Recklessness
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft | War›Civil War
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Health and Illness›Convalescence | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Materialism›Status
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Silk | Progress›New replacing old
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Bodily›Watching | Economic›Banking | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Terror | Moral›Blackmail | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating | Violent›Dragging | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Health and Illness›Insomnia | Sexuality›Fantasy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Place›Negro district
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Health and Illness›Bandage
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›October | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Crime›Embezzlement | Crime›Extortion
Environment: Natural›Moon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton | Bodily›Singing | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Movement›Car | Work›Milling
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Race›Stereotype mule
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Art›African American music
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Homer | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Overwrought
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Asking for money
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mexico
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Asking for money
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›California
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Progress›Agricultural
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lawnmower | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Defiance
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Emotional›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As currency | Economy›Property | Ethnicity›Native American
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Legal›Record keeping
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Economy›Commerce | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance refusal | Slavery›Manumission | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Purchase
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Mental›Visualize
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Ledger
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Government›Voting rights | History›Civil War consequences | History›Reconstruction | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›White fear | Race›White supremacists | Slavery›Emancipation | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Interracial violence | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Noah/flood
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Verbal›Renunciation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Bill
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | History›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Carpentry | Economic›Saving money
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Saving money
Themes and Motifs: Money›Collecting money | Money›Hidden | Money›Inheritance
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Competition | Economic›Scheming | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Rage
Cultural Issues: Crime›Moonshining | Economy›Moonshine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Appearance›Nakedness
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Segregation›Marriage | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Inheritance›Property | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Filthy lucre | Naming›And caste | Objects›Hunting horn | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Economy›Bootlegging | Race›Black property ownership
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Verbal›Storytelling
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jehovah
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Themes and Motifs: Money›Check | Money›Silver dollar | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Money›Silver dollar | Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Buying timber | Verbal›Gossip
Actions: Economic›Banking | Hunting›Fox hunting
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Economic›Barter | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Actions: Economic›Buying timber | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Saving money | Emotional›Rage
Cultural Issues: Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Communication›Sending mail | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Saving money | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Economic›Getting a receipt | Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Dialogue
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Thanking
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Economic›Offering to buy
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Exasperation | Legal›Counsel | Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Orphanage
Actions: Bodily›Nausea | Bodily›Recoiling | Economic›Bribing | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Toothpaste
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Believing | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Threat | Work›Farming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Half dollar
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Embarrassment | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Environment: Domestic Space
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Economic›Gifting | Physical›Chopping wood | Verbal›Lying
Themes and Motifs: Money›Cash | Money›Gift of money
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›House | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Economic›Bootlegging | Interaction, Private›Sexual | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Note | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Fear | Physical›Whistling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes
Relationships: Economical›Partnership | Sexual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Discussion | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Naming›Importance of naming
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Bodily›Sitting | Economic›Buying | Movement›Train | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Gossip
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Note | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Refusing | Violent›Beating | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Telling
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Running away | Verbal›Disagreeing | Violent›Murder | Violent›Shooting
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Actions: Communication›Receiving mail | Communication›Sending mail | Economic›Trading | Legal›Record keeping
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging
Environment: Public›Filling Station
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Hungering | Economic›Buying | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Gate
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Bribing | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Cultural Issues: Technology›Public telephone
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Domestic›Child care | Economic›Sex as payment | Emotional›Confident | Emotional›Exhaustion | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Baby bottle | Objects›Cigar
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Economic›Sex as payment | Work›Waitress
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Parents-children
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Bodily›Ejaculating | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Character›Fool|Foolishness
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Economic›Auction
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Economic›Horse trading
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Settling up
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Economic›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing
Actions: Economic›Competition
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Money›Promissory note
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Actions: Economic›Buying | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale
Aesthetics: Description›Grotesque
Environment: Time of Year›Harvest
Actions: Economic›Settling up
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Lot | Place›Sawmill | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Education›College | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Style›Address to reader
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar
Relationships: Familial›Mother-infant
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Physical›Cooking
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Paying
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Paying
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m.
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Banking
Environment: Domestic Space›Lot
Actions: Economic›Settling up | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Rage
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | War›Civil War
Environment: Place›City | Time of Year›Fall | Weather›Perfect Weather
Actions: Economic›Shopping | Verbal›Conversation
Actions: Economic›Shopping | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Verbal›Calling by name | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Tie
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Law›And progress
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Heidelberg, Germany
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Health and Illness›Deafness
Environment: Place›Fishing camp
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Economic›Buying | Economic›Selling | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Law›Legal document
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Banking | Verbal›Requesting
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Writing
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Without words | Economic›Factory labor
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Health and Illness›Deafness | War›Draft | War›Homefront
Environment: Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Factory labor
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Factory labor
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Overalls | Economy›Industrialization | Gender›Masculine woman | Health and Illness›Deafness
Actions: Economic›Receiving money
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
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: Economic›Insurance payment
Cultural Issues: Progress›Growing population
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Recreation
Actions: Economic›Store owner
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover
Actions: Economic›Competition
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | War›Profiting from war
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Objects›Monument | Past›Family history | Values›Family honor
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Growing population | War›Profiting from war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Actions: Economic›Competition | Emotional›Outrage
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Texts›Title
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Progress›Indoor plumbing
Cultural Issues: Law›Trespassing | Segregation›Economic
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal ownership
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Erosion | Technology›Construction equipment
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Grand Canyon
Cultural Issues: Government›State laws and regulations | Law›Civil suit
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Money›As motive
Themes and Motifs: Money›Disdaining money
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Government›Civic officials | Law›Incarceration | Progress›Paving | Race›Disenfranchisement | Religion›Religious faith | Segregation›Housing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Mental›Curiosity | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal advice | Law›Parole
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Indebtedness
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Economic›Transactional | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Gender›Lady
Relationships: Familial›Uncertain relationship
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Race›Hierarchical | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Actions: Economic›Offering to buy
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Sexual Harassment | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Violence›Gendered
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Place›Country vs city
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gambling | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Exultation
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Year›May
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Economic›Paying
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Baseball
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Motoring | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Race›Native American
Relationships: Commercial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Gallery
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Traditions
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Language›Hee hee hee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Inferiority | Emotional›Joy | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Selfishness | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Blood | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Sexual double standard | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Psalms | Allusion, Biblical›Valley of the shadow of death | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Style›Long sentence | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Whistle | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Place›Rural | Public›Bridge | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Fishing contest | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Progress›Factory | Progress›Streetcar line
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish trout | Money›Prize value | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Fishing rod | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Solitary | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Proverbs | Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Description›Color yellow | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Figures of Speech›Fire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Threads
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Escaping | Physical›Starting over
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Futility | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Money | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Compsons sell pasture | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Future | Death›Killing oneself slowly | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital | Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Mississippi | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Olfactory›Baking / bread
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Charity | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Stealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Jewish | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Food›Bread | Food›Cake | Food›Coffee | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›American | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Librarian look | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Money›Nickel coin | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Isolation
Environment: Public›Post office | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Law›Marshal | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›River | Place›Houses | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Running away | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Money›Coin | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation
Actions: Economic›Getting a receipt | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Coldness | Emotional›Impatience | Interaction, Private›Courting | Legal›Dismissing a case | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Demanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Law›Corruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Ethnic slur | Language›Profanity
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: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Investing | Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Economy›Economic speculation | Ethnicity›Jewish | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New York
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Telephone | Economic›Paying
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Beer | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Selling | Moral›Reform | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Farming tools
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Child-rearing | Economic›Child support | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Parenting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Abandonment | Marital›Breakup
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Caddy's marriage ends
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Economic›Asking for money
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Mourning | Work›Losing job
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Trust | Death›Funeral | Home›Estranged | Money›Stingy with money | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Themes and Motifs: Money›Check | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Money order
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Economic›Asking for money | Moral›Lying | Moral›Stealing | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Economic›Investing | Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Economy›Economic speculation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Letter | Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Scheming | Moral›Deception
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Economic speculation
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Resentment | Moral›Deception | Moral›Lying | Moral›Stealing | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement | Economy›Economic speculation | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
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
Environment: Public›Telegraph office
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Economic speculation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Place›Drugstore / pharmacy | Time of Year›Easter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Comforting | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Perfume | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Golf ball | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Offering to sell | Economic›Taking without paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Candlelight | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Weed
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake | Food›Eggs | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Money›Stingy with money | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Candle | Objects›Dogfennel | Objects›Fire | Objects›Flowers | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Body›Eyes | Body›Mouth | Money›Lost | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Sick room | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Bodily›Squatting | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Finding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Mumbling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Memory›Remembering | Money›Gift of money | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Ferris wheel | Entertainment›World's Fair | Materialism›Americana | Materialism›Souvenir | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Jewelry Charm | Objects›Opera glass | Objects›Peep-hole viewer / Stanhope | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Place›Hotel | Public›Restaurant | Public›Street
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Purchase | Movement›Streetcar | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: History›Awareness of / Being in history | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigar | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Clock tower | Public›Store | Public›Store window | Public›Street
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Street vendor / service worker | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking away | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Boot-black / Shoe shine | Work›Jeweler
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Money›Gift of money | Money›Nickel coin | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Town clock
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Simile
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: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Ice floes / iceberg | Atmospheric›Wind | Natural›River | Time of Year›March | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Renting | Legal›Calling police | Mental›Believing | Movement›Boat | Movement›Car | Movement›Following | Movement›Matching / Paralleling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Hat, straw | Law›Police | Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Relationship with God | Religion›Sacrilege
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Character›Regal
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Geographical›Arctic | Allusion, Geographical›Charles River | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Massachusetts | Allusion, Historical›Explorers | Figures of Speech›King and/or queen | Figures of Speech›Planets | Figures of Speech›Sheep | Figures of Speech›Simile
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: Clothes›Hat, straw
Themes and Motifs: Time›Return to present time
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
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bribe | Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Labor›Prostitution
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Economic›Stock trading
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›Audit
Actions: Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Tie | Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Politics›Election | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Art›Photograph | Character›Provincialism | Community›Secrecy | Time›Long passage of time
Environment: Time of Year›Winter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Objects›tent
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Money
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Stock trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit
Actions: Economic›Banking | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Investing | Mental›Realization | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Economic›Investing | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Moral›Purification | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Environment: Public›Store | Public›Store window | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Education›Graduation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Suitcase | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Narrative shift | Symbolism›Reflection | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Grammatically incorrect
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Cultural Issues: Government›Audit
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Economic›Paying | Economic›Trading | Interaction, Social›Shopping | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Status | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Money
Relationships: Ancestral | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Economic›Barter | Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment
Themes and Motifs: Body | Death›Corpse | Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment | Mental›Distrust
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Mannie Hait cashes check
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing | Economic›Purchase | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Mules
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Auditory›Gallop | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment | Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Offering to buy | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Law›Legal issue
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Character›Reliability
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Receiving money | Interaction, Social›Charity | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery
Themes and Motifs: Money
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Olfactory›Coffee | Olfactory›Food | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Domestic›Cooking | Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Complaining
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute | Home›Dwelling | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Fire
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Law›Lawsuit
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Payoff | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Diction›Malapropism | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Buying a house | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Negotiation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Actions: Economic›Saving money
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry | Education›Need to be educated | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Character›Humility | Character›Ruthless | Money›Social force | Psychological›Motivation | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Money›As symbol
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Money›Dowry | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Morals›Hypocrisy
Aesthetics: Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Money›As symbol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Country store
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Bank | Time of Day›Afternoon
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Community›Conformity | Money | Morals›Morality
Actions: Economic›Bribing | Interaction, Social›Shopping | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Garment female | Entertainment›Beach resort
Themes and Motifs: Money›Gift of money
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Transactional | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Trading | Mental›Believing | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Denial | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Economic›Auction | Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Indecision | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned | Tone›Humorous
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: 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: Economic›Insurance payment
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Economic›Child support | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Hunting›Rabbit hunting | Physical›Jumping | Play›Children playing | Play›Gambling | Play›Playing in water | Violent›Shooting
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Competitive | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Social›Shopping | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Funeral arrangements | War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Learning about
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Scheming | Economic›Trading | Emotional›Vengeful | Moral›Deception | Physical›Digging | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Bad conduct | Values›Truth/Lies
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Firelight
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | War›Profiting from war
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Military›Reconnaissance
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Recovery
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scamming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Region›Hapless Yankees | War›Union Army
Environment: Olfactory›Camp-fire smoke | Olfactory›Food | Place›Military camp
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements | War›Union Army
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Physical›Being pursued | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Region›Hapless Yankees | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hickahala bottom
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Chivalry | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: War›Homefront | War›Profiting from war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Character›Coward | Character›Opportunism
Environment: Auditory›Train sound
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Progress›Regional | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad