Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 26I am ready to plead, however. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in Time Magazine. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil 166). 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. Download PDF More from Eudora Welty From the. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty, Collected Stories 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. publication online or last modification online. 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. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. 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. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. There is Virgil of course, living up to his name (but only in the mind of the reader, we need to remember) in that he is there to guide William on his quest, to keep him on the track, as he says. As far as living space was concerned, however, the town was strictly divided into white and black, and though the blacks were often seen in the white district, there were few whites who ventured into colored town. 1. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hickory tree there will be yellow. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. date the date you are citing the material. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. They were later given to the University of Florida. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. 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. Then group returns to town, everyone carrying their heavy strings of fish. 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. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. [Anthony Herrera; Rachel McPherson; Marcus Viscidi; Kyra Sedgwick; Barry Tubb; Tim Ransom; M Josef Sommer; Glen Roven; Eudora Welty;] -- Set in rural Mississippi, the story focuses on the turbulent relationship of a young married couple, William Wallace and his wife Hazel, in the American South in 1933. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. It is a timeless story of three courageous women, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, who defy the status quo and begin writing a novel from the perspective of the black maids of the white families. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. She ends One Writers Beginnings 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. Omissions? 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. For one thing, I think I would have trouble arguing to myself, or to my wife and family, that I never existed, even as a boy, yet Eudora Welty is writing in the tradition of the modern folk tale. 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. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. 183). 2 Virgil of course is Dantes guide in The Divine Comedy through the Inferno and most of Purgatory. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. 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. 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. 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. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. Print. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. Corrections? 16What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. . 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. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. Myths and legends and symbols are filled with wisdom, but it is the human spirit which has done the filling, and not the other way around. She had just published a masterpiece of modern realism in which dream and the inner world are as vividly brought to life as the outside, but this is an affirmation of the living human mind, not an evasion. Robbie worries about lightning. 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 Residual Networks" paper linked makes a nice summary at the bottom of p8: . Boyd, Valerie. 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. Hickory tree there will be yellow. 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. Soon, people begin to ask if the fish are for sale, and William Wallace sells them. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. 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. 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. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. 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. eNotes.com, Inc. They all carried their classic illustrations. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. He walked on. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . She claims that she was hiding when he read her letter, and he spanks her, insisting that she say she'll never do it again. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. 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. 179). The Wide Net. 1943. 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. Robbie worries about lightning. 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. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. 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 never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. 24But 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. , 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). 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. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. The Collected Stories. Print. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. 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. Ed. 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. 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). 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. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. References to babies, for example, can be found everywhere, from the little man on the toy-like train, to the baby alligator, all the way to the corn shuck doll waiting by itself on the bench back in Dover. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. It was a far better show than the movie. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. . 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. When Alice Walker wrote her essay about finding Hurstons unmarked grave, and lamented the lack of a headstone, she was writing only part of the story. But they remain children, and act their age. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). Beanie deserves his own story. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original 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. 184). 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). One was the Florida artist A.E. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. 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. 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. They all carried their classic illustrations. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. 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. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. 180). I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. Brainstorm a list of topics for a podcast. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. Furthermore, wide networks can successfully learn with a . 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. The story works on several levels and gives the viewer no clue as to whether it should be taken seriously at all. enotes editorial.vsenotes.com20 jan. 2023 . 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. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. Walking down Orange Avenue he stopped in each of the three barber shops to tip his hat and say hello, and then picked up his daily cigar at the post office. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? It is more of a distraction than a signpost, unlike, I would be the first to admit, the names of Virgil and Hazel, more fixed in their roles. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. 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. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. 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. 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). 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. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. I realized that the origins of these myths had to be traced and analyzed, not least of all to better understand their impact on American culture and history. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. Summary. 173). Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. 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. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. 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. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. 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. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. 38I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. He plays his role well, lost in his own performance, an unstoppable gramophone of platitudes, talking just to hear himself talk, but sometimes, almost despite himself, repeating nuggets of wisdom that bear directly on the quest itself: Were walking along in the changing-time. the second is . To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. . History Of The Internet. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. But they remain children, and act their age. Remember that (Welty, Collected Stories 176). The Golden Apples. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. 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. 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. 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). The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. 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. In the end, they seem happy and content again. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. 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. 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. 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.. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. It is more of a distraction than a signpost, unlike, I would be the first to admit, the names of Virgil and Hazel, more fixed in their roles.2 If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. 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. The Aeneid. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. 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. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. Of course the well-trained reader races through the possibilities and may stop on his way to consider the myth of the golden bough in the Aeneid. . Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. 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. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. 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