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. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. 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. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. 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. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. Eudora Welty: A Biography. One day on a summer trip to Homerville, my mother took me to a field in the countryside and showed me two old tombstones under a tree. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Synopsis It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. She is one of Hazels cousins. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. 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. if there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original publication in traditional print. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 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. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. 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. Still, if I should apologize, I do. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. This is fatalism raised, or lowered, to farce, but points to a fear of being victimized by mysterious forces (without and within) that William Wallace himself must struggle against, and defeat. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. Now that I have tried to do justice to my rereading of the story, which was, and is, my main purpose throughout these reflections, there should be no objection if I back up a bit and mention a few of the memories I carried with me when I entered the new world of the Old South at the university. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. 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.. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. 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. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. AccueilNumros67ArticlesConverging Toward the Human: Myth 1It 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). I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. 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, Collected Stories 179). He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. Job Description Summary: The Executive Assistant is responsible for the management of the Chamber's database and assisting the President & CEO with the day-to-day management of the Chamber office, including governance . And, to tell the truth, the details are daunting, especially as we are led down the old Natchez Trace towards the Pearl River, deeper and deeper into southern river country, a vast cradle of natural wonder that teems with vitality and mystery. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. I say this because when The Wide Net and Other Stories came out as a single volume in 1943, Time Magazine published a review that claimed that the stories were about as human as a fish. Eudora Welty was never much affected by reviews, good or bad, but this one raised her hackles, and she wrote to Diarmuid Russell: I saw the Time review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. 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. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. 1. I like to think too, along these same lines, that the comic folklore of the first half of the story makes his solitary dive in the Pearl River, and his transformation, more unpredictable, and thus more human. 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 packet switching technology was essential to the development of . The father of the white boys is rumored to have drowned in the Pearl River, and the father of the black boys had been struck by lightning and, as Robbie cries out during a storm, was dead three days, dead as that-there axe (Welty. When we went to the movies on Saturday night, we would never hesitate to stop outside the county jail across the street from the Sunrise Theater. Now that I have tried to do justice to my rereading of the story, which was, and is, my main purpose throughout these reflections, there should be no objection if I back up a bit and mention a few of the memories I carried with me when I entered the new world of the Old South at the university. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. The pounding is musical, given that Eudora Welty is playing the instrument, but it can be felt all through the story, from the ironic chord of the first three words all the way to the final throb of the last line. 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). Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. Print. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. The Wide Net. [] Any day now the change will come. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92YplusWhen Eudora Welty read at 92Y on April 22, 1985, it had been 32 y. William Wallace keeps diving down to search for Hazel until, finally, the group decides to stop and cook some of the fish they've got for a meal. deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. Robert Fitzgerald. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! When we went to the movies on Saturday night, we would never hesitate to stop outside the county jail across the street from the Sunrise Theater. 1 Mar. Already a member? If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. Wives and girlfriends would be gathered under the windows, and the banter and singing between them and the men in jail are impossible to exaggerate. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. 171). But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? It was, however, filled with southerners. Robbie worries about lightning. She is in her early twenties (an age we might give to William Wallace) when she discovers the gift of memory, and in her seventies when she confirms it: Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. 183). 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. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. 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 town was neatly divided into black and white neighborhoods, but my grandfathers house had been deliberately chosen because it was right on the border between the two and my cousins and I played and talked with black children every day. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. The pounding is musical, given that Eudora Welty is playing the instrument, but it can be felt all through the story, from the ironic chord of the first three words all the way to the final throb of the last line. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. 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. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 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. 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. she had been filled to the brim with that elation that they all remembered, like their own secret, the elation that comes of great hopes and changes (Welty, Collected Stories 180). I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. Ed. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. One was the Florida artist A.E. He had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by defying convention, but I do not think his prestige in the white community was ever at risk. 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. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. Other people join in too. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. 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. There is the miraculous catch of fish, and the hymns William and Virgil hear while walking back home: They were having the Sacred Harp Sing on the grounds of an old white church glimmering there at the crossroads, far below. When William arrives alone at his house, he sees something he had never seen, a rainbow at night (Welty. One of the most famous sons of a James was Bonnie Prince Charles, son of James Stuart, grandson of King James II, and leader of the final Jacobite Rebellion in the middle of the eighteenth century to restore the Scottish Stuarts to the throne of England and Scotland. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. 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. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. 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. Had he suspected down there, like some secret, the real, the true trouble that Hazel had fallen into, about which words in a letter could not speak Or in a myth, I cannot help adding. It was, however, filled with southerners. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. Marrs, Suzanne. 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, Collected Stories 168). The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955) are collections of short stories, and The Eye of the Story (1978) is a volume of essays. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. The Wide Net (185) :Eudora Welty Breaking up of the party Discussed by Jenna Campbell William Wallace Jameson Hazel In old 1300s Great war hero of Scotland Williams Wife 3 mths Pregnate Virgil in the wars for Scottish Independence Conflicted main character, Best friend of William almost like his voice of reason Also In Dante's Inferno New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil 166). He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. The Collected Stories. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Whenever Walter Scott is mentioned in the context of the South, Mark Twains theory of the Civil War and the southern imagination immediately leaps to mind. 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. Summary of the net Rating: 6,6/10 562reviews The "net" is a term that refers to the internet, which is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that allows people to communicate and access information from all around the world. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. HIGHLIGHTS who: February et al. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. 172). I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. Foots waited until they were all inside. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? The river never seems the same, yet even when William Wallace forgets its name, its ageless identity is never in question: The winding river looked old sometimes, when it ran wrinkled and deep under high banks where the roots of trees hung down, and sometimes it seemed to be only a young creek, shining with the colors of wildflowers (Welty, Collected Stories 178). 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. 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. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. Since in the South, as I had finally learned in Chapel Hill, history tends to breed myth as a kind of natural law, I needed at least to consider the question. In The Wide Net, William Wallace must make his own way, and history, southern or otherwise, mythical or not, does not provide him (or the reader) with any guidelines. . 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. Einstein activity capture is a powerful productivity-boosting tool that is integrated with Salesforce. Faced with the most serious crisis of his young life, William at least has the resourcefulness to ask help from one of his friends from the night out, Virgil Thomas, and they set out to borrow the wide net from Old Doc, and to gather other members of the community to help drag the river. 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. 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. 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, 176). 1943. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? She ends. 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. 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. 43When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, One Writers Beginnings. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. 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. 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. Though 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. The Wide Net. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. Her most acclaimed work is the novel The Optimist's Daughter, which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, as well as the short stories "Life at the P.O." and "A Worn Path.". 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. 37Beanie deserves his own story. 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. At least this is true of the first half of The Wide Net. The second half is a different matter entirely and herein lies one of the genial transformations that The Wide Net performs as naturally and as completely as one season turns into another. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. 180). William Wallace knows now that Hazel holds the secret mystery that will continue to make him more of his own man, and he is willing to follow her lead as long as it takes: He climbed to his feet too and stood beside her trying to look where she looked. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. 2 Virgil of course is Dantes guide in The Divine Comedy through the Inferno and most of Purgatory. The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wide-Net-and-Other-Stories. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). 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. Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients southern. 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