Themes and Motifs: Money Payoff
Description
TMT: I added this for the scene in which John Sartoris sends money to the widow of a man whom he killed in The Unvanquished (221), so I don't know whether it will be applicable anywhere else; but nothing else on the list seemed to fit.
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- As motive
- As symbol
- Bill
- Cash
- Check
- Coin
- Collecting money
- Confederate
- Disdaining money
- Dowry
- Earned
- Expenses
- Filthy lucre
- Gift of money
- Gold
- Half dollar
- Hidden
- Ill-gotten
- In prospect
- Inheritance
- Lacking
- Loot
- Lost
- Luxury
- Meaning of
- Money order
- Need for
- Nickel coin
- Owed
- Prize value
- Promissory note
- Quarter coin
- Recovery
- Refund
- Reward
- Saving
- Scholarship
- Silver dollar
- Social force
- Stingy with money
- Stolen
- Stud fee
- Treasure
- Wasting
- Won
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Olfactory›Tobacco | Public›Town hall
Actions: Communication›Pen and ink well | Legal›Arraign | Legal›Charge/accuse | Legal›Hearing | Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Legal›Record keeping | Legal›Release of prisoner | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Procession | Violent›Kidnapping | Work›Leaving work
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Labor | Law›Corruption | Law›Evidence | Law›Eyewitness | Law›Hearing | Law›Justice of the Peace | Law›Legal document | Law›Legal fine | Law›Marshal | Law›Testimony | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Nationality›U.S. citizenship | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Nose | Chaos/Order›Order in a courtroom | Money›Payoff | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Stove | Objects›Table | Recurring Tropes›Door | Texts›Citizenship papers | Texts›Map | Texts›Plat
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Institutional›Police-arrestee | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Emotional›Satisfaction
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Explaining
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Payoff | Psychological›Manipulation
Aesthetics: Diction›Malapropism | Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Emotional›Guilt | Physical›Delivering
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Emotional›Indignation | Physical›Throwing