90). One of the most famous sons of a James was Bonnie Prince Charles, son of James Stuart, grandson of King James II, and leader of the final Jacobite Rebellion in the middle of the eighteenth century to restore the Scottish Stuarts to the throne of England and Scotland. Ben Forkner was a Professor of English at the University of Angers where he taught Southern and Irish literature, directed the English Department, and founded the Journal of the Short Story in English. 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. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. 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. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. 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. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. 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. Twain, Mark. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. What was her first novel and when was it published? 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. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. And finally, on the last page, memory is evoked again, this time in words to be engraved in stone: Of course the greatest confluence of all is that which makes up the human memorythe individual human memory. 15The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. Then group returns to town, everyone carrying their heavy strings of fish. It was a far better show than the movie. Welty, Eudora. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. (qtd. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 4. It was, however, filled with southerners. Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. 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. 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. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. Subscribe. [] Any day now the change will come. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. 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.". One of the most famous sons of a James was Bonnie Prince Charles, son of James Stuart, grandson of King James II, and leader of the final Jacobite Rebellion in the middle of the eighteenth century to restore the Scottish Stuarts to the throne of England and Scotland. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. 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. Print. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. He has coedited (with Patrick Samway) four anthologies of Southern literature: Stories of the Modern South (Penguin), Stories of the Old South (Penguin), A Modern Southern Reader (Peachtree) and A New Reader of the Old South (Peachtree). 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. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the C got through the L in a Coca-Cola sign (Welty. 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. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. 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. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. N 102 Library of America Series. 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. 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. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. 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. The Wide Net. 21His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. Brainstorm a list of topics for a podcast. 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. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. 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. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. 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. 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. Finding an Edna Earle in The Wide Net is like finding a magnolia tree in Mississippi, and should not force us to go back to St Elmo, heaven forbid. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. 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. At the beginning of the story William Wallace catches a small rabbit and acts as if he wanted to take it off to himself and hold it up and talk to it (Welty, Collected Stories 172). Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. 38I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. 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. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. And, to tell the truth, the details are daunting, especially as we are led down the old Natchez Trace towards the Pearl River, deeper and deeper into southern river country, a vast cradle of natural wonder that teems with vitality and mystery. 179). 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. 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). 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. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. 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. she had been filled to the brim with that elation that they all remembered, like their own secret, the elation that comes of great hopes and changes (Welty. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. 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. 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). 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. I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. 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. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. 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. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. 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. Life on the Mississippi. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. In one of her early letters to him she wrote about her desire to write a Mississippi book: She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". He was on a mission. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. The wide net. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. 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. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. [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. I am ready to plead, however. But there is an even better reason not to insist too much on the historical significance of names in The Wide Net. Names are chosen for us, not the other way around, and The Wide Net insists upon individual choice as the primary measure of character. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. Full Time Paid Internship Job Summary: Be a part of an innovative team and culture The Physical and Post-Production Technology department is responsible for a wide array of technologies across Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, and various other Walt Disney groups. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. 180). We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). . In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. 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). Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace and Company 1943 We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 119. reference info. But I digress, drifting with the memory. Us is the fishes (Welty, Collected Stories 183). Internet, a system architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods of commerce by allowing various computer networks around the world to interconnect. 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. Einstein activity capture is a powerful productivity-boosting tool that is integrated with Salesforce. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. 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. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. 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. The town was neatly divided into black and white neighborhoods, but my grandfathers house had been deliberately chosen because it was right on the border between the two and my cousins and I played and talked with black children every day. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. The Aeneid. The Wide Net. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. 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. William must will himself into a new man, and as a Jamieson, he must cease being a perpetual son, and affirm his status as a father. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. I did recall that it had fascinated (and puzzled) me by mixing together a multitude of myths and legends, reaching far and wide in time and in place, including the local and the regional. 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. 1 Mar. Backus, locally known as Beanie. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. Marrs, Suzanne. 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. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. William must will himself into a new man, and as a Jamieson, he must cease being a perpetual son, and affirm his status as a father. 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. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. There is the miraculous catch of fish, and the hymns William and Virgil hear while walking back home: They were having the Sacred Harp Sing on the grounds of an old white church glimmering there at the crossroads, far below. When William arrives alone at his house, he sees something he had never seen, a rainbow at night (Welty, Collected Stories 187). 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). Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. Orlando: A Harvest Book, 2006. 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. 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. Robbie worries about lightning. 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. 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. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. 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.. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. Remember that (Welty. Corrections? Remember that (Welty, Collected Stories 176). Already a member? His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. Summary. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 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. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 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. 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. the second is . Print. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. It is more of a distraction than a signpost, unlike, I would be the first to admit, the names of Virgil and Hazel, more fixed in their roles.2 If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. 1. 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. Foots waited until they were all inside. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. 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. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. Finding an Edna Earle in The Wide Net is like finding a magnolia tree in Mississippi, and should not force us to go back to. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. 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 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. If there are two dates, the date of publication and appearance 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. , and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. He has proven his love to her by spending the whole day looking for her, and he has also bonded with his friends and other other men during the process. 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. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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. 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. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. 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. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. Backus, locally known as Beanie. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955) are collections of short stories, and The Eye of the Story (1978) is a volume of essays. 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