But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and livesthe old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 104). We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. 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 . 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 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. 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, . While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. . 10The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. 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. 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. 2. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. 3. Review and critique podcasts produced by other students as a basis for creating their own segments. The Wide Net and Other Stories. 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. After all, where else can I look for a better source? [] Any day now the change will come. 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. PBS please bring this back. 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. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. When William Wallace gets home, he notices a night rainbow over his house, though it clearly hadn't rained there. 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 Wide Net - Summary" eNotes Publishing Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. Missisippi Delta in 1923. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Shortly after I finished graduate school and began to read more widely about the South I learned that Zora Neale Hurston had lived her last years in my home town, and was buried there. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. He returns to his wife better capable of living a meaningful, fulfilling life. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. 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. 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 learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. The Collected Stories. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. Updates? 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. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. 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). Now us got scales, Sam cried out. Start your 48-hour free trial to get access to more than 30,000 additional guides and more than 350,000 Homework Help questions answered by our experts. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. Since William Wallace cannot be contained in any single myth, or even in a multitude of myths, it should not have surprised me that he is able to exist untouched by history, or at least untouched by a southern identity usually defined and distinguished as being overwhelmed and overdetermined by history. In Life on the Mississippi, 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). On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. Other people join in too. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). 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. Now that I have tried to do justice to my rereading of the story, which was, and is, my main purpose throughout these reflections, there should be no objection if I back up a bit and mention a few of the memories I carried with me when I entered the new world of the Old South at the university. 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). In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. 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. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. 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. LCRI Net-Zero 2050: U.S. Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization Scenario Analysis # Executive Summary As part of the Low-Carbon Resources Initiative open in new window (LCRI), EPRI and GTI Energy led an integrated energy system scenario modeling exercise to evaluate alternative technology strategies for achieving economy-wide net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the United States by 2050. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. They catch a baby alligator and the Malone brothers insist that they want to keep it. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Eudora Welty is comically playing on the popular refrain that such a collection of rural men and boys could be found only in the Deep South. . What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. 2023 . The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. 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. 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. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. . Print. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. 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. 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. Mendelian randomization (MR) harnesses genetic variants as instrumental variables (IVs) to study the causal effect of exposure on outcome using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies. 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. Us is the fishes (Welty. Print. 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 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. Print. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. Foots waited until they were all inside. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. William Jamieson comes home one night from being out with friends and finds a note from his pregnant wife, who is threatening suicide by jumping off bridge He calls his friends and they go to the river searching for her, they also recruit bystanders to help out . 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. 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. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. HIGHLIGHTS who: February et al. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. . 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. 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 did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) 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. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organisation and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. 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. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. in Marrs 70-71). 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 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. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. publication online or last modification online. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. Engraved in large letters beneath the names was the single word: Murdered. These were the graves of her maternal grandparents who had been viciously axed to death by two men looking for easy prey and a few dollars. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. 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. 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. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. The second date is today's 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. 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). The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. Phone orders: 1-800-964-5778 Request product #201055. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? 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. Now that I have tried to do justice to my rereading of the story, which was, and is, my main purpose throughout these reflections, there should be no objection if I back up a bit and mention a few of the memories I carried with me when I entered the new world of the Old South at the university. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. 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. 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. 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. 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 never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. But the town itself was lively and busy and relatively sheltered from the poverty and misery that remained a plague throughout the greater South even in the 1950s. The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. 171). There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. 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. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). He walked on. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. 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. 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. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 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. 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. 38I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. He goes with them to drag the river. Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. 27Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. Still, if I should apologize, I do. 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. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. . 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. 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. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. 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. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. 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. 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. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 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.. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 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