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). The Wide Net. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. Word Count: 385. When I was invited to speak about the myth of the South, the thought of Weltys The Wide Net, came to my mind in a flash. 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. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 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. Summary Themes Questions & Answers Analysis Characters Quotes Start Free Trial . 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. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece. Omissions? Still, casting around for something to say about the way the South (from within and without) seems to have been designed, destined, or doomed, to generate a mythic vision, or visions, often in contradiction with each other, my thoughts could not help going back to The Wide Net.. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. 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. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. 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. 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. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. 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. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. 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. 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. Log in here. Boys, he said, I didnt run, but I did some mighty high walking. I hope I have not run away from the myth of the South, but I admit I may have done some high walking. Thank you for the indulgence, and the invitation. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. 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. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. Robert Fitzgerald. 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 hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. Her reaction is more than understandable. Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. Hickory tree there will be yellow. There is one more story about my grandfather that I need to relate. 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, Collected Stories 179). 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. 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. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. 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. 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. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. What I remember most about growing up was the joy of being outside for most of the day in a sort of tropical paradise. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 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. 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). 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. When they reach the river Old Doc remarks that the world has been turned to gold by the autumn sun: today, in October sun, its all goldsky and tree and water. 181). 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. Trans. 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. 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. Then group returns to town, everyone carrying their heavy strings of fish. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. 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. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 90). 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. They have to go and get the wide net,. But they remain children, and act their age. 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. 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. 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. Other people join in too. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. Us is the fishes (Welty. 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. 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. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. 180). The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Marrs, Suzanne. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. 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. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). 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. from the Chandigarh University, India have published the research: Genome-wide identi fi cation, expression pro ling, and functional analysis of ammonium transporter 2 (AMT2) gene family in cassava ( crantz), in the Journal: (JOURNAL) how: Showed that these three genes were upregulated in different degrees under the condition of ammonium Genome-wide identi . 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. Still, if I should apologize, I do. 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. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. 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. 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. 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. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. 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. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. 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. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. 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. Eudora Welty is a master of subjective impressionism, but there is not an escapist reflex in all her work. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organisation and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). 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. When was Delta Wedding set?? Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92YplusWhen Eudora Welty read at 92Y on April 22, 1985, it had been 32 y. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. The story works on several levels and gives the viewer no clue as to whether it should be taken seriously at all. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. 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). William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. They all carried their classic illustrations. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. "The Wide Net - Summary" eNotes Publishing But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. In the end, they seem happy and content again. 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). . Print. 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. . He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. 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. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. 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. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 8). As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. eNotes.com Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. 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. 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). When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 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. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. Jump-start your essay with our outlining tool to make sure you have all the main points of your essay covered. They all carried their classic illustrations. , one of Eudora Weltys favorite books, Twain makes the outrageous, though irresistible, claim that Scott and his historical romances helped cause the Civil War by promoting a mythical vision of history, and by shaping the southern character: It was Sir Walter Scott that made every gentleman in the South a Major or Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations Sir Walter Scott had so large a hand in making the southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible (266). Subscribe. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty, Collected Stories 183).1 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. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 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. Missisippi Delta in 1923. 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? The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 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. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. in Marrs 103). 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. . Beanie deserves his own story. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. . Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. 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. The roses needed a lot of water. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. 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. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 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). 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. 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). This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. 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. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. 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. 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). 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. Foots waited until they were all inside. He was a tall dignified man who dressed in a white suit and always had a Stetson hat on his head or in his hand. Print. 3. Review and critique podcasts produced by other students as a basis for creating their own segments. I should make it clear it was not the quality of the scholarship in what I read that puzzled me, but my consternation in not finding anything of my own life in the popular myths contained in the books. Furthermore, wide networks can successfully learn with a . Boys, he said, I didnt run, but I did some mighty high walking. I hope I have not run away from the myth of the South, but I admit I may have done some high walking. Thank you for the indulgence, and the invitation. 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. 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. But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in. His edition of Alexander Stephens prison diary, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, was published by L.S.U. date the date you are citing the material. She is one of Hazels cousins. 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.. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. Robbie worries about lightning. 176). In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. If there are two dates, the date of publication and appearance 37Beanie deserves his own story. 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, . If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. Still, if I should apologize, I do. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. 35I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. Backus, locally known as Beanie. 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