Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2017-11-30 16:43
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Location: 
Sutpen Plantation in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Page Number: 
18
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
As soon as papa and I entered those gates
Page Event Ends: 
19
Era: 
Antebellum (1831-1860)
Characters Present: 
Goodhue Coldfield
Rosa Coldfield
Ellen Coldfield Sutpen
Unnamed Enslaved Maid(1)
Characters Mentioned: 
Wash Jones
Henry Sutpen
Judith Sutpen
Thomas Sutpen
Unnamed Aunt of Rosa Coldfield
Unnamed Enslaved House Negro
Narrative Status: 
Told
Date: 
Monday, January 1, 1849 to Monday, December 31, 1849
Summary: 

Rosa recalls the first time she remembers going into Sutpen's house, when she was four; there she overhears a conversation between her father and her sister. [SOURCE: Rosa]

Chronological Order: 
129.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Family, Memory, Absence, Illness, Eavesdropping, Haunted_House
Environment:
Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions:
Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues:
Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs:
Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships:
Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Aesthetics:
Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Typography/Orthography›Dash

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