Actions: Mental
Child Terms
- Accepting
- Believing
- Calculation
- Changing one's mind
- Channeling
- Compulsion
- Confusion
- Contemplation
- Counting
- Curiosity
- Day-dreaming
- Deciding
- Deduction
- Disapproval
- Disbelief
- Discovery
- Disorientation
- Distraction
- Distrust
- Dreaming
- Economizing
- Envisioning
- Failing / Failure
- Fantasizing
- Fatalism
- Flashback
- Forgetting
- Hallucinating
- Imagining
- Impairment
- Inattentativeness
- Incomprehension
- Inquiry
- Insight
- Internal argument
- Knowing
- Learning
- Logically reasoning
- Misunderstanding
- Nightmare
- Planning
- Predicting
- Realization
- Reinterpretation
- Remembering
- Repression
- Self-consciousness
- Skepticism
- Speculation
- Studying
- Submission / Acquiescence
- Suppression / trying not to think
- Thinking
- Unaware
- Uncertainty
- Understanding
- Visualize
Tagged Events
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Grayness | Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Sunset
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Realization | Play›Poker | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Indian mound
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Health and Illness›Insanity | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Suspicion | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Play›Prank | Verbal›Bragging | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Technology›Automobile
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Language barrier
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | War›Military rank of general
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Themes and Motifs: Futility›In battle | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Actions: Mental›Forgetting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy committed | Tone›Incongruous
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hope | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Maturity | Money | Values›Greed
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Mourning | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Recurring Tropes›Searching
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Emotional›Shock | Mental›Accepting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Morals›Faith | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Imagined | Morals›Faith | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pony | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Death›Animal horse | Death›Corpse
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Invalid
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Riding | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ancestral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Objects›Books | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Scoundrel | Story-telling›Explaining
Actions: Mental›Predicting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Water
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Prejudice›Racism | Prejudice›White supremacy
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rejection | Mental›Repression | Movement›Car | Movement›Getting closer
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Irony | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
Actions: Emotional›Refusal | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Refusal | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Actions: Mental›Realization | Verbal›Withholding
Relationships: Interracial
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nondescript | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reality
Actions: Mental›Distrust | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Chess | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Play›Chess | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Planning | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Age›Youth vs age
Actions: Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Seeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Verbal›Esoteric language
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Hunting clothes | Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Scruffiness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Elephants | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Tigers
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Body›Eyes | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Will to endure
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Unknowable
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Gun
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Mental›Realization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Clothes›Hunting clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mosquitoes | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Past›Recent past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Fury | Mental›Realization | Physical›Hammering | Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Squirrel | Objects›Gun | Past›Recent past | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Work›Painting|Drawing
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Exultation | Mental›Channeling
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Long passage of time
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
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Reading
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Dogs | Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Home›Distance from home
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Moral›Deception
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Violent›Explosion
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Displacement
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: Technology›Invention
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Exodus | Allusion, Biblical›Genesis
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Hearth | Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Hallucinating | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past
Cultural Issues: History›Awareness of / Being in history
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | History›Awareness of / Being in history
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Actions: Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
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: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›November
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Inheritance | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Hunting›Waiting | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Crossing | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Animal / stable
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›November
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Objects›Footprint
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Competition | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Past | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Stable | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Philosophical›Freedom of choice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Snake | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Compass | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Hunting›Bird hunting | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization | Movement›Wrong direction | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Named bear Ben | Home›In nature | Objects›Compass | Objects›Footprint | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Trembling | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-bear
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Train / locomotive imagery
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Failing / Failure | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Competition
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Mental›Reinterpretation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Humility | Character›Pride | Values›Liberty
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white | Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-bear | Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Emotional›Pity | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Character›Pride | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear | Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Insomnia | Domestic›Cleaning | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Racial spheres
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Misunderstanding
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Mental›Realization | Non-human›Dog barking
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Believing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Gender›Masculine woman
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Narrative›Narrative anomaly
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Agriculture›Farming life | Law›Eye for an eye | Law›Grand jury | Law›Hearing | Law›Indictment | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Justice | Morals›Responsibility | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Movement›Driving
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Milking | Domestic›Nursing | Domestic›Washing | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Rural poverty
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Naming›False name | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Collaborative narration
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Idleness | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Sewing | Domestic›Washing | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: War›Patriotism | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Character›Innocence
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Understanding
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Breaking and entering
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Physical›Camping
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Goggles | Clothes›Shirt | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Black foresight | Region›The West
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›California | Description›Eyes
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Betrayal | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Hero worship | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Objects›Scythe
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Language | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Voice
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Buggy
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Death
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Actions: Mental›Learning | Verbal›Reading aloud
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Class›Planter vs farmer | Economy›Wealth | Education
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-reliance | Texts
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Morals›Injustice | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time
Themes and Motifs: Memory | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Money›Gold
Environment: Natural
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Migration
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Steamboat | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Suppression / trying not to think
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Miscegenation | War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Interracial | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
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
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Disorientation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Enlistment | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Auditory›Combat sounds
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Emotional›Anguish | Mental›Thinking | Military›Combat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›Richmond, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Collaborative narration | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Body›Mental disability | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Godhead | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Character›Swagger
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Familial | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Character›Swagger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Mythical›Phoenix | Ambiguity
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Fantasy
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Painting | Metafictional›Picture/image
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Mental›Discovery
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Architecture | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Unaware | Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Fatalism | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Barbarism | Character›Sophistication
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman consul | Allusion, Historical›Scythian
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Romantic
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Relationships: Familial | Friendship
Cultural Issues: Gender
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Don Juan | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Female | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Character›Provincialism
Environment: Place›Slave market
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Racialized | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Concubinage
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Gender›Reproduction | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Indecision | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Perceptual›Observing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Supernatural›Insight
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender | Sexuality›Experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Adultery
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
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
Environment: Natural›Water moving / flowing | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Balance | Character›Cautious | Character›Recklessness | Time›Cyclical | Time›Measuring time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Mental›Calculation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Death by water / Drowning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Mental›Skepticism | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Memory›Remembering | Story-telling
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Calculation
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Anticipation of death | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Character›Forbearance | Death›Coffin | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Animals›Buzzards | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Toys
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Exaggeration
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Social›Neighbor
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Violence›Ambush
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Capture as loss | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Place›Cottonfield
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Passivity | Mental›Fatalism | Moral›Exploitation | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Hate | Mental›Channeling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Communication›Without words | Mental›Channeling
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door | Values›Truth/Lies
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Wagon
Actions: Mental›Channeling | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Red necks | Body›Hair | Death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Snake
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Psychological›Trauma
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Materialism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Toys
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Domestic Space›House | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Mental›Predicting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Farming life | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Religion›Piety
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Community›Opinion | Values›Providence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Restlessness | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Chivalry | Race›Friendly interaction
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Grave
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Military›Escape | Movement›Limping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Progress›Tractor | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Free indirect discourse
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Fatalism | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Trembling | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Nightmare | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Legal›Divorce | Mental›Nightmare | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Sexuality›Fantasy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Planning | Perceptual›Listening
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Flight
Actions: Hunting›Rabbit hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Interracial›Companions
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Hunting›Blowing horn | Hunting›Possum | Mental›Distraction
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Mental›Incomprehension
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Divorce | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Nickname | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Sexuality›Sensuality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Death›Longing for death
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Moon | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Locust | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Food preparation | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Train | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Animals›Fox | Art›African American music | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Feminine
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Objects›Milk
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Mental›Remembering | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Marriage | Region›Hospitality | Sexuality›Pregnancy
Cultural Issues: Migration›North | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Genealogy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Metal detector
Actions: Legal›Divorce | Mental›Changing one's mind
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Etiquette
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Dogs | Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black incarceration | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Actions: Hunting›Teaching | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Understanding
Relationships: Intergenerational›Tutor-student
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Mental›Reinterpretation | Verbal›Interruption
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Mental›Visualize
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Evil | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›Romantic
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Slave trading
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Mental›Realization | Mental›Visualize | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
Actions: Communication›Writing | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Naming self
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Reinterpretation | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›And race | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization | Work›Teaching | Work›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Labor›Racialized
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Values›Family honor
Cultural Issues: Economy›Retirement
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Crossing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Lethe
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Breathing | Emotional›Jealousy | Mental›Planning | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Dialogue
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy | Marital›Violence
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Economy›Savings | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Waiting
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Contemplation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Contemplation
Relationships: Intergenerational›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Mental›Believing | Mental›Remembering
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Giving advice
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Football
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Lot | Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Mental›Imagining
Environment: Time of Year›Monday
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Spanish-American War
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Time›Simultaneity of time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation | Time›Timelessness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Anticipation
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Mental›Remembering
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Morality | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Division
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Nazi Party | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Year›January | Weather›Cold
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Distraction | Movement›Walking
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Physical›Walking
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Surgery
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Jail | Public›Street | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat | Verbal›Warning
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative
Environment: Domestic Space›Office
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Deduction | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Race›Black incarceration
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Olfactory›Smoke
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Public›Road
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Interracial
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Aesthetics: Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Crime›Car theft | Crime›Grave robbing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Lynch mob
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Whispering
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Deduction | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing | Crime›Innocence
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Turkey hunting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Interracial
Environment: Olfactory›Trees | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Natural›Dew | Natural›Spring | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Morning
Environment: Natural›Ditches | Natural›Spring | Olfactory›Alcohol | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burning | Physical›Digging | Physical›Starting fire
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Magazine | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Razor | Objects›Shaving brush | Objects›Soap
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Woods | Public›Street | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Planning | Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Undressing | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Whispering
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism | Religion›God
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Values›Misogyny
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Breakfast
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Silence
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Wee hours
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Movement›Train | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Silence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Place›Orphanage
Actions: Mental›Forgetting | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Unaware
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Toothpaste
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Christmas Eve | Time of Year›December
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Mental›Remembering | Physical›Bathing | Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Vest | Clothes›Watch chain | Identity, Personal›Background
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Naming self
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›Spring | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Sunday clothes
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Predicting
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Day›Lunch
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Spring
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Believing | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: 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: Natural›Valley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Emotional›Calm | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Accepting | Violent›Killing of animals | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Physical›Climbing | Physical›Waiting | Physical›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Menstruation | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Public›Road
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Mental›Remembering
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Aesthetics: Language›Ellipsis | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Communication›Sending mail | Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Legal›Will | Mental›Learning | Verbal›Giving advice
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Relationships: Social›Mentorship
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Emotional›Rebelliousness | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Auditory›Frogs | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Fall
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Vindictive | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Breaking | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dishes | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Denial | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Looking away | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Mental›Knowing | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War consequences
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Killing | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Vengeance
Cultural Issues: Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›French | Race›Mixed race | War›Civil War | War›Civil War consequences
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Gaining weight | Communication›Note | Emotional›Curious | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Rage | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Fantasy | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Perverse | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Relationships: Sexual
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›House | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Standing | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Car | Movement›Truck | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Discovering | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Showing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Negro-lover | Religion›Apotheosis | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Crowds
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›House | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Tuesday
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Windows
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Panama hat | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Shirtsleeves | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Basket | Objects›Handkerchief
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Study
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Emotional›Confident | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Footsteps | Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›House | Time of Year›August | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Tennyson, Alfred | Style›Present tense
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Field
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Hungering | Bodily›Kneeling | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Actions: Emotional›Terror | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Noon
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Standing | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Dread | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Religion
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Screaming
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Snoring | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Mule | Movement›Running
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Standing | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Believing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Terror | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Shaving | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Proud | Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Quarters
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Mental›Confusion | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Quitting job
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Public›Town Square
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Sheriff
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Mule | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running away | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Metaphorical
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Squatting | Bodily›Standing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hitting | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Hiding | Movement›Running | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Racial identity
Environment: Public›Courthouse | Public›Town Square
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Bicycle | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Running | Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Mental›Remembering
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Killing
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House | Natural›Ditches
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Time›Future
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Twilight
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Cultural Issues: Religion
Actions: Communication›Note | Emotional›Love | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moment of | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Gas station | Public›Road | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›August | Weather›Heat
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Actions: Mental›Knowing | Mental›Understanding
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Talking
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Actions: Emotional›Apathy | Legal›Testifying | Legal›Trial | Mental›Remembering | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Self-justifying
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it | Texts›Novel
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Purification
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Religion›Islam | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Speculation
Environment: Domestic Space›Dressing room
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Money›Cash | Objects›Baby bottle
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-infant | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Adultery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Burial | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Values›Imagination
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Allusion, Historical›Bernhardt, Sarah | Allusion, Historical›Duse, Eleonora | Allusion, Historical›Emperor Maximilian | Allusion, Historical›Lind, Jenny | Allusion, Historical›Mark Twain | Allusion, Historical›Mistinguett | Allusion, Mythical›Erinys | Narrative›Alternative story | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Values›Durability
Aesthetics: Narrative›Present-time reference
Actions: Mental›Repression | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Mumbling | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Crime›Prostitution | Entertainment›Movies | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Mental›Changing one's mind | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Sexuality›Prostitution | War›Military reassignment
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Education›College life
Themes and Motifs: Texts›School book
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Animals›Dogs | Objects›Bed | Objects›Bowl | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Curtains | Objects›Dresser | Objects›Furniture | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Pitcher | Objects›Slop jar | Objects›Towel | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Morning
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Measuring time
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Education›College life
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Mental›Fantasizing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Environment: Atmospheric›Sexual | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Bodily›Sleeplessness | Mental›Misunderstanding
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Fantasizing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Canteen | Objects›Chastity belt
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Sexual assault
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Honeysuckle | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Fantasizing | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated
Actions: Mental›Hallucinating
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Sexual symbol
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial spheres
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Narrative anomaly
Actions: Interaction, Private›Sexual | Mental›Unaware
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female in peril
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Mental›Learning
Cultural Issues: Education›Rural school | Sexuality›Interracial
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Emotional›Panic | Mental›Realization
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Physical›Questing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Realization
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Mental›Realization
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Curiosity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›As character
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Recuperation
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Environment: Domestic Space›Field
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Agricultural›Planting | Agricultural›Plowing | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Threatening
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | Race›Segregation | War›Spanish Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Actions: Emotional›Nostalgia | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover | Home›Trying to go home | Memory›Haunted by past | Time›Lost time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Gender›Separate spaces | Sexuality›Female
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Emotional›Proud | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Female
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Mental›Planning | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Education›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Extra-marital
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Education›University of Mississippi
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jacob | Allusion, Mythical›Helen
Cultural Issues: History›Spanish Civil War | Progress›Air travel
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Place›Artist's studio
Actions: Interaction, Social›Partying | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Art›Sculpture | Meaning›Aesthetic experience | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Marital›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Environment: Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: History›Pre-World War II issues
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | Modernity›Modernist style
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village | Language›French | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Health and Illness›Deafness | Politics›Democracy
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Chaplin, Charlie
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation | History›Anti-Communism|McCarthy Era
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Gender›Female in peril
Cultural Issues: Education›Negro education | Health and Illness›Deafness
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Cattle | Determinism›Fated
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Writing
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Government›Federal Bureau of Investigation
Environment: Natural›Beach | Time of Day›Sunset
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Shell | Philosophical›Human experience | Time›Long passage of time
Actions: Mental›Predicting | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
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
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Progress›Road traffic
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Cooking | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Food›Peach | Technology›Appliance | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Military equipment | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Stove
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Unseen voice | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Communication›Telegraph | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Law›Federal vs state crime
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Communication›And deafness | Mental›Planning | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Moonshine | Government›State government | Law›Incarceration | Law›Parole
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Philosophical›Human nature | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Clock | Philosophical›Freedom
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Hill country | Law›Incarceration
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Place›Railroad
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Paranoia
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
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Religion›Baptist | Religion›Church service
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Mental›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail | Crime›Prostitution | Sexuality›Impotence | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Pornography | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Uncertain relationship | Marital›Jealousy
Environment: Place›Official office | Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Relationships: Familial›Uncertain relationship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Hunting›Fishing | Mental›Contemplation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Repression
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Banishment
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Secret | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Environment: Natural›River | Natural›Tide flat / marsh | Natural›Trees | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Weather
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Entertainment›Boat race | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Traits | Gender›Women | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Art›Photograph | Character›Inherited traits | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Boat | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New London, Connecticut | Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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: Auditory›Voices | Natural›River | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Physical›Meddling | Physical›Protection | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Cousin | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Literary›Antony and Cleopatra | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Gods | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Uncertainty | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Sexual double standard | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Unnatural / Contrary to nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Train sound | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Otherworldly›Earth / the world | Place›Road | Place›Rural | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Infinity | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Pencil | Figures of Speech›Stencil | Language›Fragments
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Love | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Forced
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Sex and death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Dancing | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Dress | Gender›Dirty girl | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic | Sexual
Environment: Natural›Creek | Public›Golf course
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Searching | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Age | Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Memory›Remembering | Money›Lost | Objects›Candle | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Trees | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Stone wall | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Laughing | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Touching | Physical›Wave / waving | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Chatter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Bread | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Physical›Winking | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Male body | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Oars | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Othello | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Abduction myths | Allusion, Mythical›Euboeleus / Eubuleus | Allusion, Mythical›Persephone | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Coupled | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Swine | Language›Fragments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Moral›Punishment | Moral›Purification | Physical›Burning | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Pointing | Physical›Starting over
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Class consciousness | Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Orgasm | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Responsibility | Death›Afterlife | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Luke | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Literary›Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | Figures of Speech›Affirmation | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Figures of Speech›Locked | Figures of Speech›Wild breath | Language›Fragments | Language›yes Yes Yes yes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Light | Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Heartbeat | Auditory›Insect sounds | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Creek | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›Sand | Natural›Sky | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Heart beating | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Lying | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Starting over | Physical›Touching | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Skirt | Clothes›Wet clothes | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Insects crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Body›Knee | Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Objects›Fence | Objects›Willow tree | Objects›knife | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Romantic›Sexual | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Island of silence | Figures of Speech›Mirror | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›no no | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Cleansing power of water | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Smelling water | Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Shadows
Actions: Mental›Impairment | Play›Playing in water
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Luck | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Natural›Hills
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Laughing | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Mental›Hallucinating | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Kicking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Pigs | Community›Wedding | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Coffee | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Surgical castration
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Calling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Femininity | Religion›Christianity
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Mental›Predicting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death | Naming›Renaming | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Bells | Place›Church
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Impairment | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Religion›African American | Religion›Church service | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›Resurrection | Religion›Sermon | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Bible verse on children | Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Allusion, Biblical›Mary | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Epiphany | Symbolism›Blood | Symbolism›Christian
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Public›Road | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›Sermon
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Public›Golf course | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Impairment | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Psychological›Learning disability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Thinking | Work›Losing job
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Money›Stolen | Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Olfactory›Gasoline | Weather
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Money›Stolen
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Disbelief | Mental›Misunderstanding | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Character›Independence | Character›Innocence | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Objects›Furniture | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Courage
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype
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
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Misunderstanding | Physical›Intrusion
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Swing | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Domestic Space›Backyard | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Age | Clothes›Tie | Entertainment›Magic trick | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Mute | Ritual›Birthday | Sexuality›Birth control | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Mouth | Futility | Money›Lost | Objects›Condom | Objects›Fence | Objects›Fire | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Objects›Poison | Objects›Swing | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Learning disability | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Natural›Hills | Place›Medical practice
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Hallucinating | Mental›Misunderstanding
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Surgery | Health and Illness›Surgical castration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Body›Face
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Unreliable narrator
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
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Cruelty | Emotional›Crying | Mental›Misunderstanding | Play | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling death | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Studying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Rain | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Wishing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Dolls | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof | Time of Year›November
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Private›Parenting | Mental›Disbelief | Mental›Skepticism | Mental›Understanding | Moral›Lying | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Honor | Verbal›Lying | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Physical discipline
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Firelight | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Running | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Wishing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Mental›Studying | Moral›Punishment | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Burning | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Lifting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Mouth | Body›Shoulder | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Paper | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Collar box | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Past
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Thursday
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Cynicism | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Excrement | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Year›June | Weather
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Adam | Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Allusion, Geographical›New London, Connecticut | Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Voice | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Mental›Thinking | Non-human›Animal senses | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Objects›Bed | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Collar | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education›College | Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Body›Foot / Feet | Objects›Books | Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Being in time | Time›Being on time / punctuality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Allusion, Historical›Saint Francis | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Mental›Learning | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Condition of heaviness | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
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
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, derby | Clothes›Shoes | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Colored people as acceptable terminology | Race›Race as a form of behavior | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Region›North | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Reflection
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Public›School | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Scolding | Interaction, Private›Teacher-student | Interaction, Social›Teacher-class of students | Mental›Counting | Mental›Day-dreaming | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Education›Primary school | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | History›Explorers
Themes and Motifs: Body›Brain / mind | Body›Fingers | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Stomach/belly | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
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
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shirt | Education›Being well read / erudite | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Objects›Bricks | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Respect | Mental›Disapproval | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Actions: Emotional›Lust | Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Mental›Contemplation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Stock trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
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: Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Misspeaking
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Mental›Studying | Physical›Delivering
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Character›Coward | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment | Mental›Distrust
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Mannie Hait cashes check
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Shouting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Believing | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes | Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Education›College | Education›Female education
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Grammatically incorrect
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Commercial›Rivalry | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language›French | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Self-correction | Symbolism
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Violent›Shooting
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Disagreeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›All caps | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Promiscuity
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Year›April
Actions: Mental›Changing one's mind
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner | Time of Year›Wednesday
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Coming of age | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Bank | Time of Day›Afternoon
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor
Environment: Public›Courthouse | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m.
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining
Themes and Motifs: Time›Town clock
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Narrative›Second-person directed
Actions: Mental›Realization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Present-time reference
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: War›As metaphor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Legal›Will | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Explaining
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Unaware | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Sexual›Inappropriate
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: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Actions: Mental›Believing | Mental›Understanding | Moral›Forgiveness | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Sex and death
Themes and Motifs: Community›Conformity | Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Mental›Distraction | Movement›Car
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Mental›Disbelief | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Whispering
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration | Law›Indictment | Law›Trial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Restauranteer
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Environment: Natural›River | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Singing | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Explosion
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War consequences | War›Displacement
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Profanity
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Physical›Pursuit
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Mental›Reinterpretation | Movement›Mule | Physical›Pursuit
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Burying Sartoris silver
Cultural Issues: Gender›Clothing | Gender›Masculine woman
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Education›Law school
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Contemplation
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Moral›Deception
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Class›Homelessness | War›Homefront
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Understanding
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect