Themes and Motifs: Time Return to present time
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abrupt shift in time
- And change
- Anticipation
- Awareness of time
- Being in time
- Being late / tardiness
- Being on time / punctuality
- Being outside of time
- Continuity
- Cyclical
- Duration of time
- Frozen / Static
- Future
- Just in time
- Living in the present
- Long passage of time
- Lost time
- Measuring time
- Past
- Permanence
- Routine
- Running out
- Series of events experienced as long duration
- Simultaneity of time
- Timelessness
- Town clock
- Transcended
- Travel back in time
- Unsynchronized clocks
- Watch
- Working day
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Squatting | Bodily›Standing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hitting | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Dressed up | Education›Psychology class | Religion›Hinduism | Ritual›Sati or suttee
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Books | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Return to present time
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: Auditory›Water | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Lichen / fungi | Natural›River | Natural›Rocks / stones | Natural›Sky | Public›Bridge
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Figures of Speech›Stone | Symbolism›Reflection
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Place›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pony | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Natural›Creek | Public›Golf course
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Searching | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Age | Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Memory›Remembering | Money›Lost | Objects›Candle | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Vest | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Sexual double standard | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Control | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Actions: Mental›Impairment | Play›Playing in water
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Luck | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Actions: Play›Sports Golf
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Golf ball | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Lost | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Golf ball | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Misunderstanding | Physical›Intrusion
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Swing | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Domestic Space›Backyard | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Age | Clothes›Tie | Entertainment›Magic trick | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Mute | Ritual›Birthday | Sexuality›Birth control | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Mouth | Futility | Money›Lost | Objects›Condom | Objects›Fence | Objects›Fire | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Objects›Poison | Objects›Swing | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Learning disability | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Offering to sell | Economic›Taking without paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Candlelight | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Weed
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake | Food›Eggs | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Money›Stingy with money | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Candle | Objects›Dogfennel | Objects›Fire | Objects›Flowers | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Crying | Moral›Punishment | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Nonverbal taunting or teasing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Food›Birthday cake | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fire | Objects›knife | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Emotional›Crying | Moral›Punishment | Physical›Burning | Physical›Nonverbal taunting or teasing | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Food›Birthday cake | Health and Illness›Bandage | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injured | Health and Illness›Poisoning
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Mouth | Objects›Fire | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Stove | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flowers | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Play | Work
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Psychological›Madness | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Body›Eyes | Body›Mouth | Money›Lost | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Verbal›Complaining
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Slipper | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Actions: Emotional›Comforting
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›Master-servant
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Home›Home as prison | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Actions: Emotional›Hate | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Comforting | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Arguing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Napkin | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Interracial›Domestic
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Throwing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Arm | Body›Mouth | Objects›Drinking glass | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Interracial›Domestic
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Stairway | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room | Domestic Space›Sick room | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Bodily›Squatting | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Finding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Mumbling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gift | Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Memory›Remembering | Money›Gift of money | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Kissing | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Confining | Physical›Locking a door | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hot water bottle | Objects›Locks | Philosophical›Freedom | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Grass | Natural›Trees
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Escape from confinement
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Nightgown | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Surgical castration | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Body›Testicles | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Windows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
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
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water
Actions: Verbal›Lying | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: History›American historical myths | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Crystal | Objects›Dresser | Objects›Watch | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time | Time›Timelessness
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Death›Wake | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Irony | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Smelling water | Public›Street
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Work clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Gulls | Body›Knee | Objects›Basket | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Ship | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Carriage house
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Wheel | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Apartment | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Natural›River | Public›Chapel | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Emotional›Stubbornness | Moral›Condoning | Moral›Forgiveness | Movement›Boat | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›noblesse-oblige | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Gender›Lady | Region›The South | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Character›Regal | Naming›French noble names | Naming›Long name | Time›Return to present time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cambridge, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Mason and Dixon Line | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Direction east | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, straw
Themes and Motifs: Time›Return to present time
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shirt | Education›Being well read / erudite | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Objects›Bricks | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Time of Day›Midday
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Sidewalk
Themes and Motifs: Body›Heels | Death›Bones | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Moral›Deception | Physical›Saluting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Education›Graduation | Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race›Uncle Tom | Ritual›Holiday | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R. | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Community›Columbus Day | Community›Parade | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Luggage | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black | Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Princeton University | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | Allusion, Literary›Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Allusion, Literary›Uncle Tom's Cabin | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Themes and Motifs: Time›Long passage of time | Time›Return to present time