Exegesis

·         Valise (p.15): “a small piece of luggage that can be carried by hand, used to hold clothing, toilet articles, etc.; suitcase; traveling bag”

o   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/valise

·         Bodice (p.15): “a usually fitted vest or wide, lace-up girdle worn by women over a dress or blouse, especially a cross-laced, sleeveless outer garment covering the waist and bust, common in peasant dress”

o   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bodice

·         Ghoul – haunted woodland of Weir (p. 20): reference to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, Ulalume

o   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulalume

·         Edgar Allan Poe (p. 20):“1809–49, American poet, short-story writer, and critic. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility”

o   http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Poe,+Edgar+Allan

·         Jax beer (p.28): A brand of beer

o   http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2007-aug-jax-beer-the-drink-of-friendship

·         Galatoire’s (p. 32): “The grand dame of New Orleans' old-line restaurants”

o   http://www.galatoires.com/

·         “From the land of the sky blue water…” (p. 33): One of Charles Cadman’s most famous opera pieces, written in 1912
      o http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Cadman_Charles_Wakefield.html

·         Gander (p. 34): slang, a look

o   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gander

·         Re-bop (p. 40): “form of jazz which uses a fast tempo and complex improvisational techniques” – in this context, Stanley means for Stella to stop all the noise she is making

o   http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Rebop

·         Ante up (p. 45): pay up

o   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ante+up

·         Sugar-tit (p. 46): “a folk name for a baby pacifier, or dummy, that was once commonly made and used in North America and Britain”

o   http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Sugar%20tit

·         Kibitz (p. 48): “To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others”

o   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/kibitz

·         Portieres (p. 48): “ A heavy curtain hung across a doorway”

o   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Portiere

·         Bobby-soxers (p. 56): in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, especially one who conformed to adolescent fads

o   http://www.yourdictionary.com/bobby-soxer