Actions: Work Store clerk
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accident
- Architect
- Banking
- Barbering
- Blacksmith
- Boot-black / Shoe shine
- Building structure
- Carpenter
- Chopping wood
- Churning butter
- Construction
- Dismissal
- Dismissing from work
- Doctor / medical care
- Driving
- Factory
- Farming
- Fireman
- For room and board
- Gardening
- Getting water
- Glassblowing
- Government
- Horse training
- Hotel employee
- House painter
- Janitor
- Jeweler
- Landscaping
- Law enforcement
- Lawyering
- Leaving work
- Livery stable
- Losing job
- Maritime / Marine
- Mechanic
- Milling
- Miners / mining
- Missing work
- Night watchman
- Office
- Painting|Drawing
- Performance
- Photography
- Postal worker
- Prosecuting
- Quitting job
- Railroad workers
- Restauranteer
- Sawmilling
- Sharpening
- Sowing
- Tailor
- Teaching
- To pay for education
- Traveling salesman
- Waiter
- Waitress
- Washing clothes
- Weaving
- Yard work
Tagged Events
Environment: Place›Indian agency
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Play›Gambling | Work›Government | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Government›US Bureau of Indian Affairs
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Work›Store clerk
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi Delta
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Selling | Moral›Reform | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Farming tools
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Resentment | Moral›Deception | Moral›Lying | Moral›Stealing | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement | Economy›Economic speculation | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insect boll weevil | Money
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Public›Store | Public›Telegraph office
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University
Environment: Place›Playground | Public›School
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Suit | Education›Graduation | History›Civil War | Progress›Cars | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Money›Inheritance | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Nickname