The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. What I want to single out is not his place in the community, which was central, but his difference from most of the adult white men I knew and observed. His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. Updates? Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. 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. She is one of Hazels cousins. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. . 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. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. Print. She had just published a masterpiece of modern realism in which dream and the inner world are as vividly brought to life as the outside, but this is an affirmation of the living human mind, not an evasion. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. HIGHLIGHTS who: February et al. Beanie deserves his own story. 102). date the date you are citing the material. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. 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. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. 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. Ben Forkner, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me),Journal of the Short Story in English, 67|2016, 125-140. 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. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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. 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). 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. One was the Florida artist A.E. 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. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. 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. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. 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. Sam wore them around his head, with a knot over his forehead and loops around his ears, and Robbie Bell walked behind and stared at them (Welty. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. 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, Collected Stories 176). AccueilNumros67ArticlesConverging Toward the Human: Myth 1It might seem odd to find me turning to Eudora Weltys story The Wide Net the day I learned I had been invited to respond to the theme of Southern myth (the all-purpose, made-to-order, sempiternel Southern myth). William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. 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. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. 41Just as William Wallace is beset on all sides by a welter of signs, until he forgets the name of the Pearl River and takes his dive to the bottom, the reader is mystified by the dazzling parade of mythical allusions until he too reaches the same place. The Wide Net. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. Einstein activity capture is a powerful productivity-boosting tool that is integrated with Salesforce. in Marrs 70-71). 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. LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. It was a huge success, a romantic tome so overwritten and full of adjectives that Eudora Welty in her autobiography says her mother told her it used to be recommended to take it out with a chair when watering the roses. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Us is the fishes (Welty. It seemed odd to me too when I began thinking about the challenge of adding anything new to a debate that as we all know began long before the South became the South. They all carried their classic illustrations. Summary. 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. 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. 180). Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. When William Wallace gets home, he notices a night rainbow over his house, though it clearly hadn't rained there. 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. 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. The Wide Net. 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. 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). 179). After all, where else can I look for a better source? 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. 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. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. Her most acclaimed work is the novel The Optimist's Daughter, which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, as well as the short stories "Life at the P.O." and "A Worn Path.". Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. "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. 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. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. In. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. 15The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 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. 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. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. 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. That was only part of the legend. The name of Edna Earle comes from the heroine of the most popular novel in the South after the Civil War, by Augusta Jane Evans. 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. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. Of course the well-trained reader races through the possibilities and may stop on his way to consider the myth of the golden bough in the Aeneid. 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. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. 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. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. 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. 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. Remember that (Welty. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. 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. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. 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. Boyd, Valerie. They were later given to the University of Florida. When William Wallace praises Hazels intelligence, Virgil agrees: Shes a lot smarter than her cousins in Beulah Edna Earle never did get to be what youd call a heavy thinker. 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. 90). eNotes Editorial. 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. 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. 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. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 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. 18Since 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. William goes to get his friend, Virgil, with whom he'd spent the night carousing, and the pair of them round up some neighborhood men to drag the river. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. Foots waited until they were all inside. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. 7William Wallace Jamieson, the first words of the story, and a name I will return to, is a young man who has been married to his wife, Hazel, for a year. 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. Her reaction is more than understandable. On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. Eudora Welty is a master of subjective impressionism, but there is not an escapist reflex in all her work. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. 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. 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. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. 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. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. If there are two dates, the date of publication and appearance 4. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. Other people join in too. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). 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. 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. 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. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . 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. 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). After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. He returns to his wife better capable of living a meaningful, fulfilling life. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. . Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. 1. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). 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. 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. The shock will take a little time to absorb, but he has now found himself, and is beginning to embrace his new role as a father. Still, if I should apologize, I do. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. I 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. He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. 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. He was on a mission. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. Already a member? I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. Delta Wedding in 1946. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. 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. 36There is one more story about my grandfather that I need to relate. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). 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. Trans. 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. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. 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). Timeless stories from our 172-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day. N 102 Library of America Series. 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. Print. 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. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. 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. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. 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. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. It was a far better show than the movie. 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. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. Robert Fitzgerald. Print. He walked on. 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. 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). Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! Robbie worries about lightning. . Print. The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s. I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Vergil. 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