Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Belatedness
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Actions: Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Interracial›Romantic
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Sexual›Extramarital
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability
Cultural Issues: War›Draft | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Region›The West | Religion›Fanaticism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Magdalen
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Texts›Letters
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Unseen voice
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Thinking | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Actions: Physical›Jumping | Work›Blacksmith
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Interaction, Social›Noblesse oblige
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Pants | Education›College | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Mouth | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being late / tardiness | Time›Being on time / punctuality | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Emotional›Regret
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Inability | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver | Objects›Silverware | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness