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I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty. 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. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. 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. 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. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 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. 183). When William Wallace gets home, he notices a night rainbow over his house, though it clearly hadn't rained there. 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. , 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). 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. That was only part of the legend. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. 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. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. 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. 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. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. 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. 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. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. Still, if I should apologize, I do. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Still, if I should apologize, I do. They have to go and get the wide net,. 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. 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 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. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. 16What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. 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. 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. 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. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. Synopsis It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. See production, box office & company info. The last date is today's Ed. 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). But more than anything, in rereading the story I realized that my own fading or forgotten memories about growing up in the South had somehow dictated my choice, and that the mythic failures, or inadequacies, of The Wide Net to match the intractable selfhood of the living individual clearly harmonized with my own experience. 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 walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Remember that (Welty. 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. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. 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. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. Robbie worries about lightning. 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. 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. Sir Walter Scott celebrated both William Wallace and Bonnie Prince Charles, the latter in the most popular series of historical novels ever written, the Waverly novels. Furthermore, wide networks can successfully learn with a . 90). At least the small boys have names that set them apart. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. 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. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. 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). 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. Print. Here 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. 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. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? 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. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. 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. 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. 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 St Elmo, heaven forbid. 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. 180). My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. Once every now and then I rode my horse to school where there was a rail fence and where the teachers allowed us to eat our lunch sitting down by the horses. 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. The story recounts how Sister, the intelligent and ironic narrator, comes to fall out with her family over incidents arising from her younger sister Stella-Rondo's sudden reappearance in their small southern town, minus her husband and with a two-year-old "adopted" child in tow. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. Delta Wedding in 1946. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. The Chamber also achieved 4-star accreditation in 2018, an honor achieved by only 204 of the 7,022 chambers in the country. The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. 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. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. When I was invited to speak about the myth of the South, the thought of Weltys The Wide Net, came to my mind in a flash. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. 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, . [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Foots waited until they were all inside. The pounding is musical, given that Eudora Welty is playing the instrument, but it can be felt all through the story, from the ironic chord of the first three words all the way to the final throb of the last line. . Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. in Marrs 103). A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. 35I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. 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. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. Boyd, Valerie. Backus, locally known as Beanie. The Collected Stories. 2. This was her 3rd book of fiction, another collection of stories; published in 1943 after the Robber Bridegroom. 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. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. 3. Review and critique podcasts produced by other students as a basis for creating their own segments. The second date is today's 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. They all carried their classic illustrations. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. Subscribe. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. [] Any day now the change will come. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. Her most acclaimed work is the novel The Optimist's Daughter, which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, as well as the short stories "Life at the P.O." and "A Worn Path.". Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". 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. 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. 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. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. Beanie deserves his own story. They all carried their classic illustrations. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. . So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. I began this paper with a confession. And I found a note to myself slipped in the pages of my old single volume edition of the collection relating Eudora Weltys initial concept of writing a fictional history of the Old Natchez Trace. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. When was Delta Wedding set?? 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. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Once every now and then I rode my horse to school where there was a rail fence and where the teachers allowed us to eat our lunch sitting down by the horses. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. Hickory tree there will be yellow. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. What I remember most about growing up was the joy of being outside for most of the day in a sort of tropical paradise. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. Marrs, Suzanne. 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. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. 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. 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. Sir Walter Scott celebrated both William Wallace and Bonnie Prince Charles, the latter in the most popular series of historical novels ever written, the Waverly novels. "The Wide Net - Summary" eNotes Publishing Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). But I digress, drifting with the memory. 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. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. In the end, they seem happy and content again. 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. 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. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. enotes editorial.vsenotes.com20 jan. 2023 . What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. Full Time Paid Internship Job Summary: Be a part of an innovative team and culture The Physical and Post-Production Technology department is responsible for a wide array of technologies across Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, and various other Walt Disney groups. The Golden Apples. And if my commentaries, such as they are, do make me vulnerable to all sorts of criticism, especially when judged by the principles of pure scholarship (principles I would be the first to preach), at least I cannot be faulted on what I say about my own autobiography. 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. Twain, Mark. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 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. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. Her reaction is more than understandable. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. The Wide Net and Other Stories. 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. 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. 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). It was, however, filled with southerners. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. 3Though 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. And wild magnolia about growing up was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist.... 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