May 1942 issue Download PDF From the Archive. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. 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. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. She begins by describing a milestone in her childhood, a gift of the ten-volume, There were the fairy talesGrimm, Andersen, the English, the French, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and there was Aesop and Reynard the Fox; there were the myths and legends, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and St. George and the Dragon, even the history of Joan of Arc; a whack of. The strongest proof of identity is the capacity to change, to slip from one role to another if necessary, to pass through the modes of being that nature and time demand, but always to remain at one with oneself. 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. 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. 25I began this paper with a confession. 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. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. 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. It was written forty years after The Wide Net but I was gratified to find her speak of myth and memory in a way that confirmed what I thought I had found in the story. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. 184). The last date is today's He himself would have been too modest to mention it. All of these stories were about life around the old family farms and houses back in Homerville, Georgia, not far from the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. 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. 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). eNotes Editorial. They all carried their classic illustrations. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. 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. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. Salesforce has a wide range of tools that can be integrated with it to boost productivity. Word Count: 385. 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. 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. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. 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. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. 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. I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. 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. 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. I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. 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). The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. 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. in Marrs 70-71). date the date you are citing the material. 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. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. Hickory tree there will be yellow. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. This was her 3rd book of fiction, another collection of stories; published in 1943 after the Robber Bridegroom. 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. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. . William Jamieson comes home one night from being out with friends and finds a note from his pregnant wife, who is threatening suicide by jumping off bridge He calls his friends and they go to the river searching for her, they also recruit bystanders to help out . If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. 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. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wide-Net-and-Other-Stories. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. 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. 2023 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 172). "The Wide Net - Quotes" eNotes Publishing Ed. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. 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. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. 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). [] Any day now the change will come. 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, Collected Stories 180). In fact, it is not a baptism at all. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Log in here. 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. Foots waited until they were all inside. He was on a mission. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. Robbie worries about lightning. , and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. 43When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, One Writers Beginnings. The roses needed a lot of water. 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. 183). What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. By Alexa's traffic estimates bigpicture.net placed at 30,366 position over the world, while the largest amount of its visitors comes from India, where it takes 35,646 place. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. This blend of domestic realism with mythology and ancient fertility tales is characteristic of the entire collection, in which ordinary people are somehow connected to the myths of other cultures. He goes with them to drag the river. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. 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). William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. 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. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. 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. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. They catch a baby alligator and the Malone brothers insist that they want to keep it. 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. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. The Wide Net and Other Stories. 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. 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. 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. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. 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. 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. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. Her reaction is more than understandable. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. Foots was in charge. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece The Golden Apples. 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. Boyd, Valerie. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. 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. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. 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. 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. 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 these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in. deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. 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. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. 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. 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. As the men and boys work together to drag the river, they turn up a bunch of stuff: some fish, a great number of shoes, eels, alligators, and so on. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. 15The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. 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). The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. 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. If there are two dates, the date of publication and appearance After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. 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. 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. . URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. 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. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 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. 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. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. . 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. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. 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. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. 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. Summary Themes Questions & Answers Analysis Characters Quotes Start Free Trial . 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.. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. 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). 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. 102). Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. 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. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. 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. 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. William 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. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. Its so sad that the culture that could have put these good hearted folks bare-feet in the creek was long ago swallowed up by progress. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 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. 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. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. 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, Collected Stories 178). The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 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. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. 10The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. 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. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty, Collected Stories 179). New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. The second date is today's 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. 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. 179). After all, where else can I look for a better source? "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. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. One was the Florida artist A.E. 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. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. 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. . originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace and Company 1943 We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 119. reference info. 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 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. They all carried their classic illustrations. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. 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