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1850s Cass Mastern\'s college days and romance with Annabelle.
1860s Cass\'s death from a Civil War wound.
1914 Foreclosure proceedings on Judge Irwin\'s plantation;
Judge\'s marriage and mortgage payment in full; Jack, Anne,
and Adam\'s youth in Burden\'s Landing.
1918 Anne and Jack\'s romance begins.
1920-21 Jack\'s graduate studies in history and his marriage to
Lois.
1922 Willie and Jack meet.
1924 The schoolhouse tragedy.
1926 Willie\'s first campaign for governor.
1930 Willie is elected governor; Jack becomes his aide.
1933 The Byram White affair.
1936 Willie\'s visit to Pappy\'s farm; beginning of Jack\'s
research on Judge Irwin.
1937 Anne\'s affair with Willie; Jack\'s trip to California; the
Judge\'s suicide; Willie\'s assassination.
1938 Anne and Jack\'s marriage.
1939 Perspective from which Jack narrates novel.
Warren manipulates time in All the King\'s Men. Making leaps from one time to another is consistent with the way a person\'s memory generally works and, in this case, reflects the way that Jack associates events. As mentioned in the Style section, the novel presents you with the structure of Jack\'s thought, but is also a showpiece for Warren\'s belief that human action and meaning are a consequence of a complex interaction among the past, present, and future.
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