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. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. My grandfather, as I will discuss later on, was one of the reasons I had trouble with the grand southern myths I discovered at the university. 41Just 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. The second date is today's 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. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). New York: Signet Classics, 1961. 23Think 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. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. As for me, being known as his grandson allowed me, and my two cousins who lived in his house, special status among the blacks, and a carelessness about crossing the color line. 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. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. cite this page as follows: "the wide net - summary"enotes publishinged. He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. 178). He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. 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. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. 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. It was written forty years after The Wide Net but I was gratified to find her speak of myth and memory in a way that confirmed what I thought I had found in the story. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. 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. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. 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. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 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. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. 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). Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. Like the theater, like the wearing of masks, like the playing of games, myths are ways of trying out the world, testing other lives, often for the sheer joy of forgetting our own predicament. The story works on several levels and gives the viewer no clue as to whether it should be taken seriously at all. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. 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. Word Count: 385. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. But Hazel is no rabbit as Virgil makes clear: Anybody can freeze a rabbit, that wants to he says, and promptly chases the rabbit away: Was you out catching cotton-tails, or was you out catching your wife? (Welty, Collected Stories 172). bio notes: born: 4/13/1909 died: 7/23/2001 born as: Eudora Welty nationality: USA American short-story writer and novelist whose work is focused with great precision on the regional manners . Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. 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. 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. Carrying his great string of fish, he enters at the head of the party into Dover which now looked somehow like new after the rain (Welty, Collected Stories 184). 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. 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. They have to go and get the wide net,. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 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. One was the Florida artist A.E. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . After all, for William it is only October and the baby will not be born until April (fall and rebirth go hand in hand in this story). The Wide Net. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. 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. date the date you are citing the material. 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. The alligators slept with the water lilies and the night-blooming cereus, and the Spanish moss fell in thick curtains on both banks. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) 5I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. Boyd, Valerie. Print. Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. His name was Patrick Duval. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. 33In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. 180). 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. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. 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. 32But I digress, drifting with the memory. 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. 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. The roses needed a lot of water. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. Finding an Edna Earle in The Wide Net is like finding a magnolia tree in Mississippi, and should not force us to go back to. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. After all, for William it is only October and the baby will not be born until April (fall and rebirth go hand in hand in this story). 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). Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. Delta Wedding in 1946. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. 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. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. Us is the fishes (Welty, Collected Stories 183). My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of The Wide Net and Other Stories, notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. The Golden Apples. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. But there were no old plantations or slave quarters, and no signs to mark the battles of the Civil War since there had been no battles. 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. CRM is one of the top technology investments that organizations can make. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. Foots was in charge. 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 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). They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. Print. History Of The Internet. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. 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. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. Omissions? , 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). Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. 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. 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 only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. 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. 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. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. 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. One was the Florida artist A.E. 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. 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, Collected Stories 187). 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. 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. 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. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 1. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. 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, What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original 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. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. Remember that (Welty. 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. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. It was, however, filled with southerners. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 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. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. Print. 8The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 8). On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. 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.. 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. 21His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. 183). Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. She ends. 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. 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. 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). Vergil. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. 180). 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. 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. 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. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. There doesn't seem to be a regularization effect from very high depth in residual net- works as wide networks with the same number of parameters as thin ones can learn same or better representations. 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. 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. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. in Marrs 67-68). The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. 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. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organisation and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. 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. 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. 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. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. 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, Collected Stories 173). He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. 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. eNotes Editorial. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wide-Net-and-Other-Stories. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. 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. 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. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. Get this from a library! 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. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . 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. Trans. His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. Jump-start your essay with our outlining tool to make sure you have all the main points of your essay covered. 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. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. 4. Life on the Mississippi. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. in Marrs 70-71). He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty. I 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. 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