the wide net summary

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. 15The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. 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. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. Whenever Walter Scott is mentioned in the context of the South, Mark Twains theory of the Civil War and the southern imagination immediately leaps to mind. As far as living space was concerned, however, the town was strictly divided into white and black, and though the blacks were often seen in the white district, there were few whites who ventured into colored town. 32But I digress, drifting with the memory. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. 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. Boyd, Valerie. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. Get this from a library! Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. 180). 13There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. I began this paper with a confession. 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. William Wallace knows now that Hazel holds the secret mystery that will continue to make him more of his own man, and he is willing to follow her lead as long as it takes: He climbed to his feet too and stood beside her trying to look where she looked. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. and I believe I could find stories, old ones & new ones, and beliefs and songs and violent events all over the place to show what the life here is, to my belief Think of all the people who would be in my bookwonderful Indians to start with, and the Indian tales are beautiful and dramatic and very touching some of themand Aaron Burr & Blennerhassett, and Lafayette, and Audubon, and Jefferson Davis, and the bandits and Lafitte the pirate, and all kinds of remarkable people. Vergil. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. 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. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold. Immediately William Wallace looked down, as though he thought of Hazel with the shining eyes, sitting at home and looking straight before her, like a piece of pure gold, too precious to touch (Welty, 176). It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. 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 He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. 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. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. The roses needed a lot of water. 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. His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. The town was a typical Florida collection of frame houses, shady streets, and sandy alleys held together by a compact center of brick banks, churches, cafes, shops, and one movie theater, on the western side of the river within walking distance of the ocean to the east. 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. 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. A man and a woman, unknown to each, but sharing the commonality of being from the North, meet in New Orleans and commence upon a strange tour that almost verges on the romantic, but gets only as far as one hesitant kiss. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. 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. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. Omissions? I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. He had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by defying convention, but I do not think his prestige in the white community was ever at risk. The web value rate of bigpicture.net is 49,209 USD. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. Still, if I should apologize, I do. But Hazel is no rabbit as Virgil makes clear: Anybody can freeze a rabbit, 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, Collected Stories 172). Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. 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. 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. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. But they remain children, and act their age. 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 Great Wide Sea (2008), a novel by M. H. Herlong, follows sixteen-year-old Ben Byron, who mourns the loss of his mother with his younger brothers, Gerry and Dylan, while spending a year at sea.As Ben processes his grief, he clashes with his father, until he mysteriously vanishes from the boat one morning. They all carried their classic illustrations. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. Brainstorm a list of topics for a podcast. Packet switching was thought of as a better and faster method to transfer data than the hardware solution to the problem, i.e., the circuitry. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. 102). I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. 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. Foots waited until they were all inside. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. . Internet, a system architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods of commerce by allowing various computer networks around the world to interconnect. Print. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. 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). 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). Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. 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. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil 166). 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. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. (qtd. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. [Anthony Herrera; Rachel McPherson; Marcus Viscidi; Kyra Sedgwick; Barry Tubb; Tim Ransom; M Josef Sommer; Glen Roven; Eudora Welty;] -- Set in rural Mississippi, the story focuses on the turbulent relationship of a young married couple, William Wallace and his wife Hazel, in the American South in 1933. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. This was her 3rd book of fiction, another collection of stories; published in 1943 after the Robber Bridegroom. But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. He surely died the poorest judge in all of Florida, but he did leave me his gold Hamilton watch which had been given him when he retired from working on the railroad as a young man in Georgia. She continues several pages later: It is our inward journey that leads us through timeforward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. 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 William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. 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. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. 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. 35I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. The Golden Apples. The second date is today's As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. His name was Patrick Duval. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. As Mr Duval finished, and stood up to leave, he reached out to me and shook my hand: Your granddaddy was the only white man I ever loved.. On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. 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. 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. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. 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. 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. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. Scottish heroes and William Wallace Jamieson of The Wide Net, surely, we might be tempted to think, the combination brings southern history into the story despite all evidence to the contrary. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. That was only part of the legend. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. 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. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. A man named William Wallace Jamieson has a pregnant wife called Hazel, and he's been going out a lot lately until finally, one night, he stays out all night. 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. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. 183). She is one of Hazels cousins. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 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. When we went to the movies on Saturday night, we would never hesitate to stop outside the county jail across the street from the Sunrise Theater. 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 last date is today's . 10The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. 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. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. 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. 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). He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. 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. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. 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. 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). 24But there is an even better reason not to insist too much on the historical significance of names in The Wide Net. Names are chosen for us, not the other way around, and The Wide Net insists upon individual choice as the primary measure of character. When she allows William his ritual role of thinking himself the man of the house by letting him tamely slap and spank her, the reconciliation is complete. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. 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. 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. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? 2 Virgil of course is Dantes guide in The Divine Comedy through the Inferno and most of Purgatory. 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. It begins with the story of a deaf boy whose parents have been killed or captured by the Indians and who is left abandoned in the end, completely alone: He did not know how far he had gone on the Liberty Road when the posse came riding up behind and passed him. When 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. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. 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. It syncs contacts, emails, and events from email tools to Salesforce. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. In. Us is the fishes (Welty. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. 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. See production, box office & company info. It 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. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. They all carried their classic illustrations. 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. When was Delta Wedding set?? 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. If there are two dates, the date of publication and appearance New York: Signet Classics, 1961. 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. Print. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. Foots was in charge. But even children are sensitive to the boundary between the real and the fictional, and would hate to hear their father repeat the soliloquies of Hamlet from breakfast to bedtime even if he made a living as an actor. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. 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 . 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. But I digress, drifting with the memory. 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. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. One day on a summer trip to Homerville, my mother took me to a field in the countryside and showed me two old tombstones under a tree. When 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. The town was a typical Florida collection of frame houses, shady streets, and sandy alleys held together by a compact center of brick banks, churches, cafes, shops, and one movie theater, on the western side of the river within walking distance of the ocean to the east. Word Count: 385. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. 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. 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. These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. Orlando: A Harvest Book, 2006. Robert Fitzgerald. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the Aeneid, and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. One was the Florida artist A.E. 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. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. in Marrs 67-68). 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 Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. 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 There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. 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