Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. Foots was in charge. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 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. Hickory tree there will be yellow. 42Myth may help shape an identity, but memory is the single vital source of selfhood, and the key, I believe, to William Wallace and The Wide Net. Despite the help of the search party, the willingness of the community to lend a hand, William Wallace must forget the outside world before he plunges into the inner, and by so doing, he recovers Hazel, who as Old Doc knows, has been there all the time. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. 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. 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, Collected Stories 172). cite this page as follows: "the wide net - summary"enotes publishinged. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. 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). The roses needed a lot of water. But the town itself was lively and busy and relatively sheltered from the poverty and misery that remained a plague throughout the greater South even in the 1950s. The first page of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, written in March 1989 (Image: CERN) Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990.Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. When he comes back the next morning, Hazel is gone, and he finds a letter from her telling him she has gone to drown herself in the river. eNotes.com, Inc. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. Backus, locally known as Beanie. 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. I say this because when, 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. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. The story works on several levels and gives the viewer no clue as to whether it should be taken seriously at all. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. It was a far better show than the movie. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. 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. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. . When Mother Nature, with majestic abandon, unleashes a storm for the ages (or the makers of myths) to show who will always rule the roost, William Wallace is not deterred or disturbed. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. The name of Edna Earle comes from the heroine of the most popular novel in the South after the Civil War, St Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. Rereading 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. 2023 . Later on I was told that the killers were black men, and that members of our family had made sure they were given a fair trial. After all, where else can I look for a better source? Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. There is no great central Southern myth in The Wide Net. But I must have half-remembered that the potency of the mythic, including a few old southern folktales or legends, does play a key role in the story, especially by pounding the pedal throughout on the truth that no myth, potent or not, can ever measure up to one mans solitary predicament. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. The wide net. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. 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. Print. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. 9Other 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. Trans. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. As the men and boys work together to drag the river, they turn up a bunch of stuff: some fish, a great number of shoes, eels, alligators, and so on. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. 21His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. 1943. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 102). 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. eNotes Editorial. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. At this point the mythic and symbolic allusions begin to overwhelm, but I believe, as you know by now, that their very proliferation throws into high relief the singular nature of one mans all too human crisis. Ben Forkner was a Professor of English at the University of Angers where he taught Southern and Irish literature, directed the English Department, and founded the Journal of the Short Story in English. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. 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. The thing about this part of the country in the great days is that people like Aaron Burr, J.J. Audubon, Lorenzo Dow, and goodness knows who, were as thick as blackbirds in the pie, and once the pie is opened, they are going to begin to sing (qtd. Download PDF More from Eudora Welty From the. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. William must will himself into a new man, and as a Jamieson, he must cease being a perpetual son, and affirm his status as a father. 183). Robbie worries about lightning. She continues several pages later: It is our inward journey that leads us through timeforward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. 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. Shortly after I finished graduate school and began to read more widely about the South I learned that Zora Neale Hurston had lived her last years in my home town, and was buried there. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in Time Magazine. 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. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. Timeless stories from our 172-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. He had never been given much credit for his act, though in the recent biography of Hurston, by Valerie Boyd, written long after my visit home, he is singled out for praise (436). What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. 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. 5I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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). . New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. Us is the fishes (Welty, Collected Stories 183). Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. We may take this with a grain of salt, but the fascination with Scottish heroes in the South would have made the name of William Wallace a common choice. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. 90). He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. Us is the fishes (Welty. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. [] Any day now the change will come. 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. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. He was on a mission. It has been a delightful day of adventure on the river for the Malones, the Doyles, and the others (including the reader), but the wide net (a sort of local myth itself) has caught nothing, except a haul of fish, a big eel, old shoes, the baby alligator, and a string of beads. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original 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). When William Wallace gets home, he notices a night rainbow over his house, though it clearly hadn't rained there. Life on the Mississippi. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. History Of The Internet. . He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. 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. He had never been given much credit for his act, though in the recent biography of Hurston, by Valerie Boyd, written long after my visit home, he is singled out for praise (436). I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. Myth may help shape an identity, but memory is the single vital source of selfhood, and the key, I believe, to William Wallace and The Wide Net. Despite the help of the search party, the willingness of the community to lend a hand, William Wallace must forget the outside world before he plunges into the inner, and by so doing, he recovers Hazel, who as Old Doc knows, has been there all the time. 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. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. 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. It will not be lost on the reader that the structure of The Wide Net roughly follows the same literary source, proceeding from hell, to purgatory, and finally to paradise. It was perfect for riding out on the sand dunes at night, and for taking friends to the honky-tonks to hear one of our classmates wail out his versions of the old standards of Hank Williams and the brand new songs of Jerry Lee Lewis. 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. 2. 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). No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. 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. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. As Mr Duval finished, and stood up to leave, he reached out to me and shook my hand: Your granddaddy was the only white man I ever loved.. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. Vergil. 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. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . He told me that my grandfather had told him he had left Georgia to come to Florida because he hated the way blacks were treated. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. Print. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty, Collected Stories 183).1 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. 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). 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. the second is . 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. But even children are sensitive to the boundary between the real and the fictional, and would hate to hear their father repeat the soliloquies of Hamlet from breakfast to bedtime even if he made a living as an actor. Remember that (Welty. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. 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. 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.. 23Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 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. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 32But I digress, drifting with the memory. Robert Fitzgerald. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. The Golden Apples. The Wide Net. 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. In Life on the Mississippi, 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). She begins by describing a milestone in her childhood, a gift of the ten-volume Our Wonder World on her sixth or seventh birthday: 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 Pilgrims Progress and a long piece of Gulliver. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Other people join in too. 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. Then there are the other adult members of the search party, the six Doyle brothers and their dogs, and the eight Malone brothers, eight giants with great long black eyelashes (Welty. During the wars of Scottish independence in the thirteenth century, William Wallace was the great leader and hero, whom popular tradition in the mists of time has now elevated to mythical proportions. William Wallace Jamieson, the first words of the story, and a name I will return to, is a young man who has been married to his wife, Hazel, for a year. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. 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.. 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. the citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. I had fished and hunted in the great inland swamps, and had built rafts of giant bamboo to ride with my friends down the St Lucie River, surely as haunting and as hidden away as the Pearl River in The Wide Net. 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