Relationships: Romantic Courtship
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Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Domestic›Food preparation | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Ethnicity›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Character›Popularity
Cultural Issues: Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race | Gender›Masculinity
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Work›Dismissing from work
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Intergenerational | Interracial›Indian-white | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Place›Cottonfield | Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Objects›Still
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry | Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Moral›Prohibiting | Movement›Following
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Gender›Body | Gender›Patriarchy | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Horsewhip | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Reproduction | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glove | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Men vs women | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Actions: Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Shotgun marriage | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Dress | Mass Media›Movies | Sexuality›Unattractiveness
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Mass Media›Fantasy | Mass Media›Movies
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bookishness | Community›Local legends
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bookishness | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Eyeglasses
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Summer house
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›Summer house
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Etiquette | War›Deprivation
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: Race
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: War›Insubordination
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Insubordination
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Responsibility
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Romantic›Courtship
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Masculine woman
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Moral›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Return from war
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash
Aesthetics: Diction›Derogatory socio-economic term | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male gaze | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Verbal›Invitation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Conviction
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Lancelot | Allusion, Literary›Romance | Narrative›Perspective
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Longing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Silence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: History›1860 Election of Lincoln | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Enlistment | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: War›Going to war
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Objects›Photograph
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Electricity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Fatalism | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Barbarism | Character›Sophistication
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman consul | Allusion, Historical›Scythian
Actions: Hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Riding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Projection
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Verbal›Rumor
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Friendship | Romantic›Courtship
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Restlessness | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Chivalry | Race›Friendly interaction
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Actions: Communication›Silence | Play›Tennis | Work›Glassblowing
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Gender›Idealization | War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship | Social›Neighbor
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Obligation | Romantic›Courtship
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Romantic›Courtship
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Communication›Note | Emotional›Love | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Extended family | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Interaction, Social›Picnic
Cultural Issues: Politics›Campaigning | Politics›Election | Religion›Church service
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry | Religion›Church service
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Gender›Male rivalry
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Metaphorical
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Law›And progress
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Heidelberg, Germany
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | Modernity›Modernist style
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Greenwich Village
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Environment: Auditory›Music | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Emotional›Love | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Reform | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Gender›Separate spaces | Labor›Prostitution | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wedding ring | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Packing | Emotional›Excitement
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Death›Response to
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi
Cultural Issues: Gender›Changing relationships
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Heartbeat | Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Movement›Running | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Kissing | Physical›Touching | Violent›Fighting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Swing | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Clothes›Garter | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Circus | Gender›Marriage | Region›The South | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Year›Friday
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Donne, John
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Sexuality›Attractiveness
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Violent›Animal attack on human
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering