Other people join in too. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty, Collected Stories 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. When we went to the movies on Saturday night, we would never hesitate to stop outside the county jail across the street from the Sunrise Theater. These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. 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. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wide-Net-and-Other-Stories. Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. 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. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. The second date is today's 11The 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. 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. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. Still, the shock of my initial consternation never left me, thus my impulse to turn back to Eudora Welty and my memory of The Wide Net and its mysteries when I was invited to talk about the great myths of the South. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. 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, . publication online or last modification online. 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. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. 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. 1. 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. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. 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. 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. 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. 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). Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. 171). 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. 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 fact, it is not a baptism at all. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. 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. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. , and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. 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. in Marrs 103). 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). I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. 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. 40I have tried to explain, to myself more than to anyone else, that the multiplication of myth and legend in The Wide Net is there, in all its rich jumbling, to nudge the reader elsewhere. 13There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. 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). New York: Signet Classics, 1961. Print. 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. if there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original publication in traditional print. Trans. His edition of Alexander Stephens prison diary, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, was published by L.S.U. 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 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. 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. Remember that (Welty. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. 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. But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in. 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. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. 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. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. 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. What was her first novel and when was it published? He was on a mission. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. 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. 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 certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "The Wide Window" by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). 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. 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. 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. 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. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. Foots waited until they were all inside. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 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. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. 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. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. 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. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . the second is . The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. 178). 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. 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 Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. Ed. Timeless stories from our 172-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day. 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 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. They all carried their classic illustrations. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. The Golden Apples. 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. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. 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. 179). 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. Delta Wedding in 1946. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. 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. Walker Percy has written somewhere that a boy who has a Hamilton from his grandfather is a true son of the South, and I still have mine. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. One was the Florida artist A.E. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. 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. 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 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 County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 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. Just 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. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. 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. in Marrs 67-68). Us is the fishes (Welty, Collected Stories 183). In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. 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. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. 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. 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. [] Any day now the change will come. 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. Print. Twain, Mark. The roses needed a lot of water. Jump-start your essay with our outlining tool to make sure you have all the main points of your essay covered. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. The story works on several levels and gives the viewer no clue as to whether it should be taken seriously at all. Missisippi Delta in 1923. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). But I digress, drifting with the memory. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. She ends. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. The last date is today's Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. . Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. 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. Later on I was told that the killers were black men, and that members of our family had made sure they were given a fair trial. Summary of the net Rating: 6,6/10 562reviews The "net" is a term that refers to the internet, which is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that allows people to communicate and access information from all around the world. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. 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 . 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. 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. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. 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. originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace and Company 1943 We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 119. reference info. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. Corrections? What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. His name was Patrick Duval. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. We may take this with a grain of salt, but the fascination with Scottish heroes in the South would have made the name of William Wallace a common choice. 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. 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. 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. 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.. Einstein activity capture is a powerful productivity-boosting tool that is integrated with Salesforce. the citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. 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. 4. She is one of Hazels cousins. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 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