Title: The story and its writer--Sixth Edition
Subjects: Short story, Short stories, reedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination
Places: Mallard residence, Louisiana, L’Abri, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: 19th century, Antebellum era, 1861-1865