Themes and Motifs: Appearance Cosmetics
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- As character
- Baldness
- Beautiful/handsome
- Complexion
- Condition of heaviness
- Depth / deepness
- Diminishment / fading
- Dirty
- Fatness / obesity
- Feminine
- Hair pigtails
- Inscrutable
- Invisibility
- Librarian look
- Nakedness
- Nondescript
- Perspective
- Pretending / Feigning
- Racialized
- Red necks
- Scruffiness
- Similarity
- Surface
- Ugliness
Tagged Events
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Emotional›Introspective | Emotional›Shame
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Sexual›Extramarital
Actions: Physical›Undressing
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Objects›Clock
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Appearance›Pretending / Feigning
Relationships: Romantic›Flirtation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Deathbed | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Body›Eyes
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Religion›Church service | Violence›Male-female
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Environment: Public›Post office
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Appearance›Cosmetics | Futility›Nothing to do
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Hiding | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Morals›Justice | Past›Quest to recover
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Bed | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Gun | Objects›Perfume
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Reba's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Environment: Place›Speakeasy | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Entertainment›Dancing | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Art›Jazz music
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Immodest female clothing | Entertainment›Traveling show | Gender›Clothing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Immodest female clothing | Clothes›Tie | Education›Truancy | Entertainment›Traveling show | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dressed up
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Texts›Letters | Time›Frozen / Static
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics