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1 Robbie is right to be frightened. But I digress, drifting with the memory. 6It would not be amiss at this point to give a brief account of what happens in The Wide Net. It might help set the stage for those of you who have never read it, or who, like me before I took it up again, may have to struggle to remember the details of an earlier reading. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. I believe my shock at having to account to myself as a southerner when I arrived in my early twenties in Chapel Hill, and faced the impressive body of scholarship on southern myth then in fashion, helps explain why. At the beginning of the story William Wallace catches a small rabbit and acts as if he wanted to take it off to himself and hold it up and talk to it (Welty, 172). eNotes.com, Inc. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. "The Wide Net - Summary" eNotes Publishing When William Wallace praises Hazels intelligence, Virgil agrees: Shes a lot smarter than her cousins in Beulah Edna Earle never did get to be what youd call a heavy thinker. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. When Alice Walker wrote her essay about finding Hurstons unmarked grave, and lamented the lack of a headstone, she was writing only part of the story. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Its so sad that the culture that could have put these good hearted folks bare-feet in the creek was long ago swallowed up by progress. Be the first to contribute! Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Print. A man named William Wallace Jamieson has a pregnant wife called Hazel, and he's been going out a lot lately until finally, one night, he stays out all night. Orlando: A Harvest Book, 2006. LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. Packet switching was thought of as a better and faster method to transfer data than the hardware solution to the problem, i.e., the circuitry. Of course the well-trained reader races through the possibilities and may stop on his way to consider the myth of the golden bough in the, . And the final story in The Wide Net (and thus the collection itself) concludes with the portrait of a young woman who is rejected, and is forced to face absolute desolation and a serial rape. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. Eudora Welty is a master of subjective impressionism, but there is not an escapist reflex in all her work. The town was a typical Florida collection of frame houses, shady streets, and sandy alleys held together by a compact center of brick banks, churches, cafes, shops, and one movie theater, on the western side of the river within walking distance of the ocean to the east. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. When he returned to his house, he found Hazel was not there, and she'd left a note saying that she had gone to drown herself in the river and that he'd be sorry for his behavior. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. 38I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. with a celebration of memory that for her has now become a personal creed, and has allowed her to begin her life as a writer. When he surfaces he is still in shock: And when William Wallace came up it was in an agony from submersion, which seemed an agony of the blood and of the very heart, so woeful he looked (Welty, Collected Stories 180). The fact that William Wallace allows them to come even though they are too young to be of much help may imply that the value of his own fatherhood is beginning to dawn on him. Updates? A more distant past was hidden behind the Spanish place names and the faces of the Seminole Indians who worked as cowboys on the ranches. Walking down Orange Avenue he stopped in each of the three barber shops to tip his hat and say hello, and then picked up his daily cigar at the post office. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. Right after he got back, though, some of his old friends met him at a local tavern and asked him if it were true that he had run away from the fight. Sam wore them around his head, with a knot over his forehead and loops around his ears, and Robbie Bell walked behind and stared at them (Welty. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. Creative Commons - Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Voir la notice dans le catalogue OpenEdition, Plan du site Crdits Flux de syndication, Politique de confidentialit Gestion des cookies, Nous adhrons OpenEdition Journals dit avec Lodel Accs rserv, Vous allez tre redirig vers OpenEdition Search, Special Issue: Representation and Rewriting of Myths in Southern Short Fiction, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me), It might seem odd to find me turning to Eudora Weltys story The Wide Net the day I learned I had been invited to respond to the theme of Southern myth (the all-purpose, made-to-order, sempiternel Southern myth). Here time, also, is subject to confluence. He walked on. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. Robert Fitzgerald. Myths and legends and symbols are filled with wisdom, but it is the human spirit which has done the filling, and not the other way around. After all, there were some brilliant minds at work on the subject, minds who could spot a stereotype or a caricature a hundred miles away, and there was much to learn. The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold. Immediately William Wallace looked down, as though he thought of Hazel with the shining eyes, sitting at home and looking straight before her, like a piece of pure gold, too precious to touch (Welty, Collected Stories 176). When he wakes up he affirms his new sense of power and potency by tying a catfish to his belt and launching into a wild Dionysian dance. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. A more distant past was hidden behind the Spanish place names and the faces of the Seminole Indians who worked as cowboys on the ranches. I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. She ends. Engraved in large letters beneath the names was the single word: Murdered. These were the graves of her maternal grandparents who had been viciously axed to death by two men looking for easy prey and a few dollars. deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. For one thing, I think I would have trouble arguing to myself, or to my wife and family, that I never existed, even as a boy, yet Eudora Welty is writing in the tradition of the modern folk tale. Boys, he said, I didnt run, but I did some mighty high walking. I hope I have not run away from the myth of the South, but I admit I may have done some high walking. Thank you for the indulgence, and the invitation. She claims that she was hiding when he read her letter, and he spanks her, insisting that she say she'll never do it again. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in Time Magazine. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. The Collected Stories. He saw that the bodies of the frozen birds had fallen out of the trees, and he fell down and wept for his father and mother, to whom he had not said good-bye (Welty, First Love,, (and thus the collection itself) concludes with the portrait of a young woman who is rejected, and is forced to face absolute desolation and a serial rape. 21His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. PBS please bring this back. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. Once every now and then I rode my horse to school where there was a rail fence and where the teachers allowed us to eat our lunch sitting down by the horses. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. . I benefited from these books as much as anyone. 1 Mar. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. He surely died the poorest judge in all of Florida, but he did leave me his gold Hamilton watch which had been given him when he retired from working on the railroad as a young man in Georgia. It was a huge success, a romantic tome so overwritten and full of adjectives that Eudora Welty in her autobiography says her mother told her it used to be recommended to take it out with a chair when watering the roses. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. Foots was in charge. Welty, Eudora. It seemed odd to me too when I began thinking about the challenge of adding anything new to a debate that as we all know began long before the South became the South. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. There is Virgil of course, living up to his name (but only in the mind of the reader, we need to remember) in that he is there to guide William on his quest, to keep him on the track, as he says. As far as living space was concerned, however, the town was strictly divided into white and black, and though the blacks were often seen in the white district, there were few whites who ventured into colored town. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. More important to my purpose here, however, they did help me throw some light on the pluralities of myth and legend that had confused me when I had first read The Wide Net. I realize this is a self-indulgent proposition, but to be honest, I no longer have much faith in finding the definitive myth of the collective South. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 181). They have to go and get the wide net,. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. Other than Old Doc, the characters making up the search party include two sets of young brothers, the white boys, Brucie and Grady Rippin, and the black boys, Sam and Robbie Bell. Summary. Salesforce has a wide range of tools that can be integrated with it to boost productivity. He was a tall dignified man who dressed in a white suit and always had a Stetson hat on his head or in his hand. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. . eNotes Editorial. Forkner has also published three books on John James Audubon: Journals and Selected Writings in the Penguin Nature Classics series, with an introduction and editorial commentary; and two in Europe: the two-volume Journaux et Rcits (Atalante and the City of Nantes), a comprehensive collection of Audubons writings in French, newly translated, with a full biographical introduction and editorial commentary, and the John James Audubon Portfolio (Edition de la Main Fleurie) which includes an introduction, a selection of Audubons letters, and forty-eight reproductions of Audubons original watercolors printed on hand-made paper designed to replicate the paper used in the early nineteenth century. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. For much of the story at least, William Wallace and the other characters are closer to the simple stock figures of song and legend than they are to men and women in the real world. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. I realized that the origins of these myths had to be traced and analyzed, not least of all to better understand their impact on American culture and history. He was on a mission. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. She had just published a masterpiece of modern realism in which dream and the inner world are as vividly brought to life as the outside, but this is an affirmation of the living human mind, not an evasion. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. , notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. Beginning as a folktale of the barely possible innocence of a perennial boy with a cow-lick, at a loss and turning in circles, the story right in the middle changes skin, and the boy and the narrative miraculously transform themselves into a one-of-a-kind human triumph. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. the citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. What was her first novel and when was it published? His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightnin drawed a pitchfork right on our grandpappys cheek, stayed till he died (Welty, Collected Stories 183). Backus, locally known as Beanie. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. When I was invited to speak about the myth of the South, the thought of Weltys The Wide Net, came to my mind in a flash. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. The town was a typical Florida collection of frame houses, shady streets, and sandy alleys held together by a compact center of brick banks, churches, cafes, shops, and one movie theater, on the western side of the river within walking distance of the ocean to the east. 4Rereading The Wide Net brought many of these memories back to mind, and it brought back to mind too my dismay in Chapel Hill at fitting them into a theory of myth, or even at weaving them into a common pattern of southern identity. And after a few minutes she took him by the hand and led him into the house, smiling as if she were smiling down on him (Welty, Collected Stories 188). , one of Eudora Weltys favorite books, Twain makes the outrageous, though irresistible, claim that Scott and his historical romances helped cause the Civil War by promoting a mythical vision of history, and by shaping the southern character: It was Sir Walter Scott that made every gentleman in the South a Major or Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations Sir Walter Scott had so large a hand in making the southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible (266). The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. 173). William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. The strongest proof of identity is the capacity to change, to slip from one role to another if necessary, to pass through the modes of being that nature and time demand, but always to remain at one with oneself. The absence of history serves the same purpose, I believe, as the excessive abundance of symbol and myth the reader must negotiate before setting his sights on the inner spirit William Wallace possesses to exist all by himself. 179). Hickory tree there will be yellow. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. William Jamieson comes home one night from being out with friends and finds a note from his pregnant wife, who is threatening suicide by jumping off bridge He calls his friends and they go to the river searching for her, they also recruit bystanders to help out . He goes inside and there is Hazel! Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. They all carried their classic illustrations. He plays his role well, lost in his own performance, an unstoppable gramophone of platitudes, talking just to hear himself talk, but sometimes, almost despite himself, repeating nuggets of wisdom that bear directly on the quest itself: Were walking along in the changing-time. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) 1943. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Of course the well-trained reader races through the possibilities and may stop on his way to consider the myth of the golden bough in the Aeneid. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. She could have easily searched out one of the old Backus crowd willing to share the memory of Beanies role in the funeral and the missing headstone. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. In. . When was Delta Wedding set?? Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Me and Benz tight as a pair of shoes. The whole shed shook with laughter, given the reference to his feet, and from that day on I was home free and part of the gang. The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. Right after he got back, though, some of his old friends met him at a local tavern and asked him if it were true that he had run away from the fight. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . She begins by describing a milestone in her childhood, a gift of the ten-volume, There were the fairy talesGrimm, Andersen, the English, the French, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and there was Aesop and Reynard the Fox; there were the myths and legends, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and St. George and the Dragon, even the history of Joan of Arc; a whack of. Ben Forkner, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me),Journal of the Short Story in English, 67|2016, 125-140. The "Wide Residual Networks" paper linked makes a nice summary at the bottom of p8: . 183). Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 3Though I have spent much of my professional life reading and thinking about southern identity and the historical versions of the Old and New South, I really did not encounter anything resembling a theory of the South as a land of myth and mythmaking before I began my graduate studies at Chapel Hill. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. All of these stories were about life around the old family farms and houses back in Homerville, Georgia, not far from the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. What I want to single out is not his place in the community, which was central, but his difference from most of the adult white men I knew and observed. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? Still, casting around for something to say about the way the South (from within and without) seems to have been designed, destined, or doomed, to generate a mythic vision, or visions, often in contradiction with each other, my thoughts could not help going back to The Wide Net.. Beanie deserves his own story. The Great Wide Sea (2008), a novel by M. H. Herlong, follows sixteen-year-old Ben Byron, who mourns the loss of his mother with his younger brothers, Gerry and Dylan, while spending a year at sea.As Ben processes his grief, he clashes with his father, until he mysteriously vanishes from the boat one morning. A man and a woman, unknown to each, but sharing the commonality of being from the North, meet in New Orleans and commence upon a strange tour that almost verges on the romantic, but gets only as far as one hesitant kiss. By Alexa's traffic estimates bigpicture.net placed at 30,366 position over the world, while the largest amount of its visitors comes from India, where it takes 35,646 place. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. References to babies, for example, can be found everywhere, from the little man on the toy-like train, to the baby alligator, all the way to the corn shuck doll waiting by itself on the bench back in Dover. 30But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in The Wide Net. I did recall that it had fascinated (and puzzled) me by mixing together a multitude of myths and legends, reaching far and wide in time and in place, including the local and the regional. Word Count: 385. See production, box office & company info. His edition of Alexander Stephens prison diary, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, was published by L.S.U. In the title story, a man quarrels with his pregnant wife, leaves the house, and descends into a mysterious underwater kingdom where he meets "The King of the Snakes," who forces him to confront the darker mysteries of nature. And finally, on the last page, memory is evoked again, this time in words to be engraved in stone: Of course the greatest confluence of all is that which makes up the human memorythe individual human memory. 2023 . He has written many essays on writers from Ireland and the American South, and has edited a dozen anthologies, including Modern Irish Short Stories (Penguin), A New Book of Dubliners (Methuen), Georgia Stories (Peachtree) and Louisiana Stories (Pelican). No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. [] Any day now the change will come. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. I realized that the origins of these myths had to be traced and analyzed, not least of all to better understand their impact on American culture and history. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. 37Beanie deserves his own story. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. The human drama is my main concern, however, and the one day in the life of William Wallace, wild as it is, is much easier to summarize. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. When she allows William his ritual role of thinking himself the man of the house by letting him tamely slap and spank her, the reconciliation is complete. 1. William goes to get his friend, Virgil, with whom he'd spent the night carousing, and the pair of them round up some neighborhood men to drag the river. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. I am ready to plead, however. Her reaction is more than understandable. Soon, people begin to ask if the fish are for sale, and William Wallace sells them. He was a tall dignified man who dressed in a white suit and always had a Stetson hat on his head or in his hand. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. I should make it clear it was not the quality of the scholarship in what I read that puzzled me, but my consternation in not finding anything of my own life in the popular myths contained in the books. Brainstorm a list of topics for a podcast. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Full Time Paid Internship Job Summary: Be a part of an innovative team and culture The Physical and Post-Production Technology department is responsible for a wide array of technologies across Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, and various other Walt Disney groups. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. . We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. When they reach the river Old Doc remarks that the world has been turned to gold by the autumn sun: today, in October sun, its all goldsky and tree and water. Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. More important to my purpose here, however, they did help me throw some light on the pluralities of myth and legend that had confused me when I had first read The Wide Net. 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