Her reaction is more than understandable. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 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. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. In. 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. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 35I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. She begins by describing a milestone in her childhood, a gift of the ten-volume, There were the fairy talesGrimm, Andersen, the English, the French, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and there was Aesop and Reynard the Fox; there were the myths and legends, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and St. George and the Dragon, even the history of Joan of Arc; a whack of. Carrying his great string of fish, he enters at the head of the party into Dover which now looked somehow like new after the rain (Welty, Collected Stories 184). Eudora Welty is a master of subjective impressionism, but there is not an escapist reflex in all her work. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. 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. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 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. Ben Forkner, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me),Journal of the Short Story in English [En ligne], 67|Autumn 2016, mis en ligne le 01 dcembre 2018, consult le 02 mars 2023. Robbie worries about lightning. 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. 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). . 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. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. 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. The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. Forkner has also published three books on John James Audubon: Journals and Selected Writings in the Penguin Nature Classics series, with an introduction and editorial commentary; and two in Europe: the two-volume Journaux et Rcits (Atalante and the City of Nantes), a comprehensive collection of Audubons writings in French, newly translated, with a full biographical introduction and editorial commentary, and the John James Audubon Portfolio (Edition de la Main Fleurie) which includes an introduction, a selection of Audubons letters, and forty-eight reproductions of Audubons original watercolors printed on hand-made paper designed to replicate the paper used in the early nineteenth century. in Marrs 67-68). Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. 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. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 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. 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. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. the second is . 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 escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. 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 . He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. They have to go and get the wide net,. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. The name of Edna Earle comes from the heroine of the most popular novel in the South after the Civil War, St Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans. Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. 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. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. 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 Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. But they remain children, and act their age. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. 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. 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. Salesforce has a wide range of tools that can be integrated with it to boost productivity. 25I began this paper with a confession. 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). 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. 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. 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, Collected Stories 183). The packet switching technology was essential to the development of . Robert Fitzgerald. 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. 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. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. 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. 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. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 33In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. The thing about this part of the country in the great days is that people like Aaron Burr, J.J. Audubon, Lorenzo Dow, and goodness knows who, were as thick as blackbirds in the pie, and once the pie is opened, they are going to begin to sing (qtd. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. After all, there were some brilliant minds at work on the subject, minds who could spot a stereotype or a caricature a hundred miles away, and there was much to learn. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. 180). 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. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 183). If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 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). Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. His name was Patrick Duval. 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. 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. Us is the fishes (Welty. Foots waited until they were all inside. 176). 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. The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s. PBS please bring this back. When he returned to his house, he found Hazel was not there, and she'd left a note saying that she had gone to drown herself in the river and that he'd be sorry for his behavior. But I digress, drifting with the memory. 90). When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. 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. 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. 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. In the end, they seem happy and content again. It was written forty years after The Wide Net but I was gratified to find her speak of myth and memory in a way that confirmed what I thought I had found in the story. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. Be the first to contribute! 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. 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. 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. 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. The Golden Apples. 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. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. Trans. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. 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. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. 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 later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 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. 172). Delta Wedding in 1946. 27Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. eNotes Editorial. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. Download PDF More from Eudora Welty From the. 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. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. May 1942 issue Download PDF From the Archive. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. 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. . 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. 183). There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. The Chamber also achieved 4-star accreditation in 2018, an honor achieved by only 204 of the 7,022 chambers in the country. 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). It was, however, filled with southerners. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. It was, however, filled with southerners. 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. 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 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. 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. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. See production, box office & company info. The roses needed a lot of water. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece. 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. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. But Hazel is no rabbit as Virgil makes clear: Anybody can freeze a. , that wants to he says, and promptly chases the rabbit away: Was you out catching cotton-tails, or was you out catching your wife? (Welty. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. Print. 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. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. 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. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. 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). Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. 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). Omissions? New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty, Collected Stories 179). 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). 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. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . One was the Florida artist A.E. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. 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. 178). I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. More important to my purpose here, however, they did help me throw some light on the pluralities of myth and legend that had confused me when I had first read The Wide Net. I realize this is a self-indulgent proposition, but to be honest, I no longer have much faith in finding the definitive myth of the collective South. 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. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. In my town there were cattle ranches and orange groves to the west, and a small fleet of shrimping boats chugging back and forth on the Indian River to and from the Atlantic. There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty. They were later given to the University of Florida. 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. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. 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 is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. publication online or last modification online. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. This blend of domestic realism with mythology and ancient fertility tales is characteristic of the entire collection, in which ordinary people are somehow connected to the myths of other cultures. 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. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece The Golden Apples. 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. 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. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. His name was Patrick Duval. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. Orlando: A Harvest Book, 2006. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. Hickory tree there will be yellow. 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