Actions: Economic Rationalization
Description
The act of making refining business practices to maximize profit and market share. Flem does this to the Varners' various enterprises by instituting standard pricing and thorough record keeping. JB
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accounting
- Ascent
- Asking for money
- Auction
- Banking
- Bankrupcy
- Bargaining
- Barter
- Blacksmithing
- Bootlegging
- Borrowing
- Bribing
- Buying
- Buying a house
- Buying a shop or store
- Buying on credit
- Buying timber
- Carpentry
- Child support
- Competition
- Delivery
- Earning Money
- Eviction
- Factory labor
- Frugality
- Getting a receipt
- Gifting
- Hiring / employing / offering a job
- Horse trading
- Impounding
- Indebtedness
- Insurance payment
- Investing
- Lending Money
- Offering to buy
- Offering to sell
- Partnership
- Paying
- Purchase
- Rationing
- Receiving money
- Renting
- Saving money
- Scamming
- Scheming
- Selling
- Selling a house or place
- Selling land
- Settling up
- Sex as payment
- Share-cropping|Tenantry
- Shopping
- Stock trading
- Store owner
- Taking without paying
- Trading
- Transactional
Tagged Events
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Rationalization | Economic›Settling up
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | History›Colonization | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Africa
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing | Economic›Rationalization | Work›Shodding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Body›Face | Objects›Coal oil
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting | Time of Year›Laid-by season
Actions: Economic›Rationalization
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Building structure
Actions: Economic›Rationalization
Cultural Issues: Education›School vs life | Government›Bureaucracy | Identity, Cultural›South vs North