But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in. 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. Trans. 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. The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. 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. . Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. William Wallace keeps diving down to search for Hazel until, finally, the group decides to stop and cook some of the fish they've got for a meal. Robbie worries about lightning. Her reaction is more than understandable. 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. It was, however, filled with southerners. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. The packet switching technology was essential to the development of . 11The 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. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. 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? 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. 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. 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. 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. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. 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. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. 5I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. 178). 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. Still, the shock of my initial consternation never left me, thus my impulse to turn back to Eudora Welty and my memory of The Wide Net and its mysteries when I was invited to talk about the great myths of the South. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. PBS please bring this back. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. He goes inside and there is Hazel! Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. 34I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. 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. 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. 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. 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. She is in her early twenties (an age we might give to William Wallace) when she discovers the gift of memory, and in her seventies when she confirms it: Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. 21His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. That was only part of the legend. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. 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). There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 180). 10The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. 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. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. A more distant past was hidden behind the Spanish place names and the faces of the Seminole Indians who worked as cowboys on the ranches. 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 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. 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. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. 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. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. 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. 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, Collected Stories 183). Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. [] Any day now the change will come. In the end, they seem happy and content again. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. 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. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. When was Delta Wedding set?? 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 Burning" digs so deep that it verges on becomingas exemplified hereone of the most ferocious of the very few examples of genuinely Expressionist literature by a famous American short story author. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. 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. Us is the fishes (Welty, Collected Stories 183). In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. The story works on several levels and gives the viewer no clue as to whether it should be taken seriously at all. 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). William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. 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. 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. Summary. 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. 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. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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 strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. 179). The last date is today's 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. Boyd, Valerie. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 8). He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. 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. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. 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. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. Brainstorm a list of topics for a podcast. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil 166). Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. 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. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. 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. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. . Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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. 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. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. 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. Timeless stories from our 172-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day. 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. date the date you are citing the material. 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. 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. 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). Here time, also, is subject to confluence. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. . After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece The Golden Apples. Job Description Summary: The Executive Assistant is responsible for the management of the Chamber's database and assisting the President & CEO with the day-to-day management of the Chamber office, including governance . The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty. 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. Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. 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. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. 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. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). 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. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. 2 Virgil of course is Dantes guide in The Divine Comedy through the Inferno and most of Purgatory. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. eNotes.com 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. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. 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. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. Foots was in charge. I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. 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. When William Wallace gets home, he notices a night rainbow over his house, though it clearly hadn't rained there. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. They all carried their classic illustrations. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. 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. 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. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. 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. 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. They were later given to the University of Florida. cite this page as follows: "the wide net - summary"enotes publishinged. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. "The Wide Net - Summary" eNotes Publishing The Wide Net Episode aired Feb 2, 1987 55 m IMDb RATING 8.6 /10 14 YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Drama Romance Add a plot in your language Director Anthony Herrera Writers Anthony Herrera Eudora Welty (story) Stars Elnora Chapman Boyce Holleman Tim Ransom See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 3 User reviews Photos Add photo Top cast William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. 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. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. 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. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. At the beginning of the story William Wallace catches a small rabbit and acts as if he wanted to take it off to himself and hold it up and talk to it (Welty, Collected Stories 172). 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. 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