Cultural Issues: Progress
Child Terms
- Agricultural
- Air travel
- As loss
- Building structure
- Cars
- Clearing the land
- Consumerism
- Country to city
- Education
- Electrification
- Elevator
- Factory
- Frontier times
- Frontier to civilization
- Gentrification
- Growing population
- Historical
- Homogeneity
- Indoor plumbing
- Infrastructure
- Ironies of
- Mail delivery
- Neon lights
- New replacing old
- Pace of travel
- Paving
- Racialized
- Regional
- Religion
- Renaming
- Renovations
- Requirements
- Road traffic
- Roads
- Skyscraper
- Smoke stack
- Social
- Streetcar line
- Technological
- Telegraph
- Tractor
- Trains
Sibling Terms
- Age
- Agriculture
- Alcohol
- Class
- Clothes
- Crime
- Cultural Identity
- Economy
- Education
- Entertainment
- Ethnicity
- Food
- Gender
- Global
- Government
- Group Mentality
- Health and Illness
- History
- Hunting and Fishing
- Identity, Cultural
- Identity, Personal
- Labor
- Land-Use
- Law
- Mass Media
- Materialism
- Migration
- Modernity
- Nationality
- Politics
- Prejudice
- Race
- Region
- Religion
- Ritual
- Segregation
- Sexuality
- Slavery
- Supernatural
- Technology
- Violence
- War
Tagged Events
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Swearing | Emotional›Relief | Hunting›Racoon hunting | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Walking | Play›Gambling | Play›Joking around | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Hay | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Cultural Issues: Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Cultural Issues: Progress›Technological | Technology›Invention | Technology›Television
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Progress›Historical
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Requirements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Interaction, Social›Frontier life
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marketing
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Napoleon | Figures of Speech›Personification | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Social›Making progress
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Fugitive
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Progress›Mail delivery
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Texts›Letter of protest
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Arthritis | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Mail delivery
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters | Texts›Newspapers
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Actions: Interaction, Social›Incarcerating
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Naming›Named for historical figure
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: History›Dispossessing Indians | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Natural›Woods | Place›Lawns | Place›Plantation | Place›Quarters | Place›Stable
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Place›Jefferson
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city | Progress›Racialized
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Government›Governor | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Home | Naming›Place name | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Social decline | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Place›Houses | Public›Golf course
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernization | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Economy›Industrialization | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism | Progress›Country to city
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Progress›Social | War›As educational
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Social›Social organizations
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Store clothes | Economy›Retirement | Government›US Post Office | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Music | Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Musical instrument | Values›Success
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Entertainment›Radio | Entertainment›Television | History›Moving away | Progress›Technological | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Persistence | Naming›Commercial origins
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Time›Travel back in time
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Nationality›Old vs New World | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Time›Transcended | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Political solidarity | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Mass Media›Advertising | Mass Media›Newspaper | Progress›Trains | Race›Segregation | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming | Money›Expenses | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Movement›Train
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Community›Crowd | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | History›Founding fathers | Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Porch
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bookishness
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
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
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Environment: Natural›Back country
Cultural Issues: Crime›Making whisky | Ethnicity›Scotch-Irish | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Infrastructure | Violence›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Values›Independence
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Isolation
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure | War›Pillage | War›Union Army
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Education›Need to be educated | Identity, Cultural›Mankind | Progress›Education
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order
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
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Economy›Wealth | Progress›Country to city | Progress›Technological | Technology›Elevator
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Civic›child protection
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Riding | Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Play›Gambling | Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Birthright | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Consumption | Economy›Gambling | Identity, Personal›Background | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Character›Opportunism | Character›Recklessness | Determinism›Vs human agency | Money›As motive | Money›Ill-gotten | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Allusion, Geographical›Virginia | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | History›Dispossessing Indians | Progress›Building structure | Race›Native American stereotype
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Mass Media›Telephone | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Burial | Death›Respect | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Philosophical›Movement
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
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Silk | Progress›New replacing old
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Environment: Place›Country vs city | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Progress›Consumerism | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Architecture
Cultural Issues: Progress›New replacing old
Cultural Issues: Progress›Consumerism
Cultural Issues: Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Cultural Issues: Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Green eyeshade | Progress
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Death›Afterlife | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Progress›Agricultural
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lawnmower | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Defiance
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Environment: Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Naming›Using Indians as names
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss
Themes and Motifs: Time›Travel back in time
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Land-Use›Ownership | Nationality›Old vs New World | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Transcended | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-nature
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Death›Coffin
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Progress›Agricultural | Progress›Cars | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Tractor
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Compson land acquired
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Progress›Frontier times
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier times
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Style›Long sentence passim
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | History›Indian Removal | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Economy›Commerce | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Slave trading
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Technological
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›And progress
Cultural Issues: Progress›Technological
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Public›Jail
Actions: Communication›Writing
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Cultural Issues: Progress›Indoor plumbing | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Paving | Progress›Roads | Progress›Technological | Progress›Trains | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›Local laws and regulations | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Cultural Issues: Government›Depression-era programs | Progress›Technological | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Government›Depression-era programs | Progress›As loss | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Paving | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Modern fashions | Economy›Advertising | Economy›Industrialization | Entertainment›Radio | History›Great Migration | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Popular magazines
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Tractors | History›Great Migration | Progress›Tractor
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Diminishing farms | Education›G.I. Bill | Entertainment›Television | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Electrification
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Multiculturalism | Progress›Technological | War›World War II
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›July Fourth | Time of Year›Juneteenth | Time of Year›New Year | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Actions: Agricultural›Milking a cow | Legal›Bailing out | Work›Yard work
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Hangover | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Place›Stable | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Naming›Named for historical figure | Naming›Place name
Relationships: Civic›Postal carrier-community | Familial›Mother-son
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Interaction, Social›Making progress | Physical›Building | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Silk | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Labor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Communication›Receiving mail | Communication›Sending mail | Economic›Trading | Legal›Record keeping
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
Environment: Public›Courthouse | Public›Jail
Cultural Issues: Law›And progress | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Objects›Iron box
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Building | Work›Architect | Work›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Environment: Time of Year›Winter
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›Racism | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: Government›Civic officials | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Paris | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: Progress›New replacing old
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Office | Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Sparrow | Time›Town clock
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Actions: Interaction, Social›Voting
Cultural Issues: Government›Voting rights | Progress›Cars | Race›Integration | Race›White supremacists | Technology›Electricity | Technology›Neon
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Economy›Civic boosterism | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Promotional
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Napoleon | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier times
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Damocles sword
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wanting a drink | Progress›Frontier times | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Tutor-student
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Progress›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Newspaper article
Cultural Issues: Government›US Post Office | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Alligators | Animals›Bear | Animals›Bison | Animals›Deer | Animals›Panther | Animals›Wolf | Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Historical | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Repetition
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Exile›Dispossession
Actions: Agricultural›Planting
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Progress›As loss | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Money›Social force
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›LeFlore, Greenwood | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Government›State capital | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Creating order
Cultural Issues: Government›State capital | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Cultural Issues: History›Compromise of 1850 | Progress›Trains
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Clay, Henry | Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Andrew
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Civic events | Mass Media›Radio | Progress›Air travel | Progress›Technological
Environment: Auditory›Postal horn
Actions: Communication›By sound | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Government›National authority | Progress›Frontier times
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Communication›Miscommunication | Movement›Walking
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Environment: Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Work clothes | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Driving to Goodwin's
Cultural Issues: History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Gender›Separate spaces | Progress›Technological
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Objects›Firewood
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Nationality›English / British | Nationality›Scottish | Nationality›Welsh | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Building structure
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Hitch-hiking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Shoes | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Paving
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Environment: Public›Town Square
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Work›Building structure | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Progress›Gentrification
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mount Vernon
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: History›Spanish Civil War | Progress›Air travel
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Cultural Issues: Progress›Air travel | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Actions: Movement›Aviation | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Death›Plane accident
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Ohio | Recurring Episodes›Young Bayard's death
Environment: Domestic Space›Stable | Place›Farm
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Car | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Repair
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Materialism›Status | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Gentrification
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Movement›Car | Verbal›Repetition
Cultural Issues: History›Spanish Civil War | Progress›Air travel | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Texts›Poetry
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances | Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Language barrier | History›Communism | Politics›Conservative | Progress›Social
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Progress›Road traffic
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Religion›Fanaticism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›Road traffic
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Cultural Issues: Progress›Road traffic
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Progress›Road traffic | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Reassurance
Cultural Issues: Economy›Prices | Progress›Racialized | Race›Black property ownership | Segregation›Economic
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Teasing
Cultural Issues: Politics›Democracy | Progress›Technological | Technology›Radio | Technology›Television
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Insurance payment
Cultural Issues: Progress›Growing population
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | History›Baby Boom | Progress›Growing population | War›Profiting from war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Character›Shrewdness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Environment: Domestic Space›Carriage house
Actions: Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Progress›Indoor plumbing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Growing population
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Agricultural›Hog farming | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Progress›Electrification | Race›Racial resentment | Segregation›Housing
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Government›Welfare | History›Post-war prosperity | Politics›Liberal | Progress›Consumerism | Progress›Racialized | Sexuality›Appearance of | Sexuality›Female | War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Language›Italian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Education›Phi Beta Kappa | Gender›Masculine woman | Progress›Gentrification
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hollywood | Allusion, Literary›Catullus | Allusion, Literary›Horace
Environment: Time of Year›June
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | History›Post-war prosperity | Progress›Racialized | Sexuality›Pregnancy
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Economy›Banking | Progress›Cars | Progress›Social | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Agriculture›Corn | Class›Caste system | Economy›Wealth | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Law›Grand jury | Law›Legal document | Law›Sheriff | Progress›Electrification
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates
Environment: Public›Post office | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Moral›Forgiveness | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Progress›Mail delivery
Cultural Issues: History›Founding fathers | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Government›Civic officials | Law›Incarceration | Progress›Paving | Race›Disenfranchisement | Religion›Religious faith | Segregation›Housing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Hitch-hiking | Movement›Truck
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi Delta | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Progress›New replacing old | Religion›Religious faith | Slavery›As cause of Civil War | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Education›Informal | Progress›Infrastructure
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Murmur | Olfactory›Urine | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Husbandry | Progress›Infrastructure | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Values›Virtue
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Actions: Verbal›Predicting
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›New replacing old
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Infrastructure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Hunting›Setting up camp | Movement›Truck
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Annual | Progress›Cars
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Cars | Progress›Roads
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Time›Continuity
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Moses
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Naming›Place name
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Electrification
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Parentheses
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Driving gear | Progress›Cars
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Motoring | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Garage
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Place›Livery stable | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Progress›New replacing old | Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Upstairs | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Shouting | Work›Washing clothes
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Language›Hee hee hee | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gentleman's agreement | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Motoring clothes | Entertainment›Motoring | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Entertainment›Motoring | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry | Figures of Speech›Expression | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Work›Livery stable
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Car | Psychological›Obsession
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›May | Time of Year›Planting time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Diction›Neologism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Time›Continuity
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Cultural Issues: Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Time›Continuity
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Public›Filling Station
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Cars | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›New replacing old
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Infrastructure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Self-correction
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Place›Fishing camp
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Bootlegging | Hunting and Fishing›Annual | Land-Use›Agricultural | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Renaming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Renaming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Race›Native American
Relationships: Commercial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary | Public›Store
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Relationships: Commercial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Outlaw country | Place›Railroad | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Cattle rustling | Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation | History›Frontier outlawry | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | War›Civil War | War›Stolen valor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Food | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Loft | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Public›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›May | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Progress›Country to city | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Race›Segregation
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Advertising | Progress›Smoke stack
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New England
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›Sea / Ocean
Cultural Issues: Progress›Smoke stack | Religion›Resurrection
Themes and Motifs: Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Flat-iron | Psychological›Peace | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Dickinson, Emily | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Literary›The Tempest | Symbolism›Sexual symbol
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Fecundity / lushness | Natural›Trees | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall | Weather›Coolness
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Whistle | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Place›Rural | Public›Bridge | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Fishing contest | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Progress›Factory | Progress›Streetcar line
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish trout | Money›Prize value | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Fishing rod | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Solitary | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Proverbs | Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Description›Color yellow | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Figures of Speech›Fire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Threads
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Resentment | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Following | Movement›Sneaking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Death from drinking | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Economy›Economic speculation | Ethnicity›Jewish | Progress›Telegraph | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Gasoline | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Progress›Roads | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Narcissus | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Public›Street | Public›Town Square
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Ferris wheel | Entertainment›World's Fair | Materialism›Americana | Materialism›Souvenir | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Jewelry Charm | Objects›Opera glass | Objects›Peep-hole viewer / Stanhope | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation | Modernity›Changing customs | Politics›City government | Progress›Cars
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Youth | Government›Generational reform | History›Indian Removal | Progress›Historical
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict
Environment: Public›Post office | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Politics›Election | Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Objects›Ax | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cuba | Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius
Environment: Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Ambition | Class›Middle | Nationality›American | Politics›City government | Politics›Election | Progress›Cars | Progress›Ironies of | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Status | Progress›New replacing old
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
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail | Entertainment | Progress›Technological | Sexuality›Pornography
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bravado | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Actions: Economic›Buying a house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Economic›Paying | Economic›Trading | Interaction, Social›Shopping | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Status | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Money
Relationships: Ancestral | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: History›Frontier outlawry | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Public›Road
Themes and Motifs: Money›Wasting | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Pretension | Materialism›Status | Progress›Consumerism | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female intuition | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Work›Blacksmith | Work›Mechanic
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars | Progress›New replacing old
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Domestic Space›Pasture
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Economical›Partnership | Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Skirt | Crime›Murder | Gender›Masculine woman | Progress›Regional | Region›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Upliftment | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hawkhurst | Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Social›Conflict
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad
Environment: Auditory›Train sound
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Progress›Regional | Progress›Trains
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Campsite | Time of Day›Dawn
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hawkhurst
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order | Memory›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order