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I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. 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. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. 171). Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty. Subscribe. 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. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. 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. 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. They all carried their classic illustrations. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. It begins with the story of a deaf boy whose parents have been killed or captured by the Indians and who is left abandoned in the end, completely alone: He did not know how far he had gone on the Liberty Road when the posse came riding up behind and passed him. It syncs contacts, emails, and events from email tools to Salesforce. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. 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 a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. 29A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. 176). New York: Signet Classics, 1961. His name was Patrick Duval. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. 40I have tried to explain, to myself more than to anyone else, that the multiplication of myth and legend in The Wide Net is there, in all its rich jumbling, to nudge the reader elsewhere. in Marrs 70-71). After all, where else can I look for a better source? 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. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. 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. Just as William Wallace is beset on all sides by a welter of signs, until he forgets the name of the Pearl River and takes his dive to the bottom, the reader is mystified by the dazzling parade of mythical allusions until he too reaches the same place. 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. Sometimes referred to as a "network of networks," the Internet emerged in the United States in the 1970s but did not become visible to the general public until the early 1990s. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the Aeneid, and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. 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. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. Robbie worries about lightning. Then group returns to town, everyone carrying their heavy strings of fish. Summary of The Wide Net by Welty. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organisation and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. 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. To begin with, the southern world I grew up in, a small coastal town in Florida in the years after WWII, was not all that representative of the South. Synopsis It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. 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. and I believe I could find stories, old ones & new ones, and beliefs and songs and violent events all over the place to show what the life here is, to my belief Think of all the people who would be in my bookwonderful Indians to start with, and the Indian tales are beautiful and dramatic and very touching some of themand Aaron Burr & Blennerhassett, and Lafayette, and Audubon, and Jefferson Davis, and the bandits and Lafitte the pirate, and all kinds of remarkable people. 2 Virgil of course is Dantes guide in The Divine Comedy through the Inferno and most of Purgatory. 184). But there is an even better reason not to insist too much on the historical significance of names in The Wide Net. Names are chosen for us, not the other way around, and The Wide Net insists upon individual choice as the primary measure of character. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. 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. He was on a mission. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. eNotes Editorial. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 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. 102). 44Here is the same confused hodgepodge of myth and fable we can find in The Wide Net. They are the wonderful fictions out of which an adult life finally emerges, but never forgets. 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 Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. 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. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. eNotes.com My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. They catch a baby alligator and the Malone brothers insist that they want to keep it. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. 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. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. 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. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. 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). 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. 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. 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). Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. (qtd. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. 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 story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. It was, however, filled with southerners. Marrs, Suzanne. History Of The Internet. The roses needed a lot of water. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. 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 I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. 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. Print. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. 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. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? 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. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. She is one of Hazels cousins. 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. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. 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). 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. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. 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. Einstein activity capture is a powerful productivity-boosting tool that is integrated with Salesforce. 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. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 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. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. See production, box office & company info. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. Print. 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. 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. 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 second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. They have to go and get the wide net,. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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). He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. Print. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. But they remain children, and act their age. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. Hickory tree there will be yellow. 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. Walker Percy has written somewhere that a boy who has a Hamilton from his grandfather is a true son of the South, and I still have mine. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. 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 Wide Net and Other Stories. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. The shock will take a little time to absorb, but he has now found himself, and is beginning to embrace his new role as a father. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. 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. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. PBS please bring this back. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. Does anybody really believe there is a body in the creek or are they just having great time being outdoors together in the precious last waning days of early fall. 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. Furthermore, wide networks can successfully learn with a . [] Any day now the change will come. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and livesthe old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 104). 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. I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. 37Beanie deserves his own story. in Marrs 103). It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. 7William 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. 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. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. 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. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. He goes with them to drag the river. 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. I began this paper with a confession. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. It 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. She ends. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. 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). 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. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. enotes editorial.vsenotes.com20 jan. 2023 . 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. 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. 10The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. 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. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "The Wide Window" by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). Beanie deserves his own story. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 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. 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. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 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. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. 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. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. May 1942 issue Download PDF From the Archive. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. Soon, people begin to ask if the fish are for sale, and William Wallace sells them. Jump-start your essay with our outlining tool to make sure you have all the main points of your essay covered. 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. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. That was only part of the legend. Robert Fitzgerald. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. 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. The Wide Net (1987) Plot Showing all 0 items Jump to: Summaries It looks like we don't have any Plot Summaries for this title yet. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. He has proven his love to her by spending the whole day looking for her, and he has also bonded with his friends and other other men during the process. There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. 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. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. 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 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. 13There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. 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