the wide net summary

As for me, being known as his grandson allowed me, and my two cousins who lived in his house, special status among the blacks, and a carelessness about crossing the color line. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. A man and a woman, unknown to each, but sharing the commonality of being from the North, meet in New Orleans and commence upon a strange tour that almost verges on the romantic, but gets only as far as one hesitant kiss. 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. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). Now us got scales, Sam cried out. 179). Print. Summary of The Wide Net by Welty. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. 180). 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 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. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). She begins by describing a milestone in her childhood, a gift of the ten-volume Our Wonder World on her sixth or seventh birthday: 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 Pilgrims Progress and a long piece of Gulliver. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 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. 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 storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. Vergil. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. He returns to his wife better capable of living a meaningful, fulfilling life. 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. 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. Life on the Mississippi. 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. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. His name was Patrick Duval. Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. 3Though 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. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. , notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. 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. That was only part of the legend. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. He goes inside and there is Hazel! 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. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. 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. 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. 42Myth may help shape an identity, but memory is the single vital source of selfhood, and the key, I believe, to William Wallace and The Wide Net. Despite the help of the search party, the willingness of the community to lend a hand, William Wallace must forget the outside world before he plunges into the inner, and by so doing, he recovers Hazel, who as Old Doc knows, has been there all the time. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. 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). 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. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. 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. 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. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his 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. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. 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. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. 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. His edition of Alexander Stephens prison diary, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, was published by L.S.U. . William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. They have to go and get the wide net,. Synopsis It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 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. 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. 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. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. They were later given to the University of Florida. 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. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. 5I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. 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.. 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. 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. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. 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. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. 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. 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. Corrections? 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. 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. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. 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. 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. He walked on. 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. (qtd. 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. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. Then there are the other adult members of the search party, the six Doyle brothers and their dogs, and the eight Malone brothers, eight giants with great long black eyelashes (Welty, Collected Stories 173). The Wide Net and Other Stories. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. Download the entire The Wide Net study guide as a printable PDF! 90). After all, where else can I look for a better source? 27Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. 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. 171). . Phone orders: 1-800-964-5778 Request product #201055. Print. 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. 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). Robbie is right to be frightened. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. 34I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. 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. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 8The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. The Wide Net. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty. 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.". The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. 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. 102). When he comes back the next morning, Hazel is gone, and he finds a letter from her telling him she has gone to drown herself in the river. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. 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. 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. This was her 3rd book of fiction, another collection of stories; published in 1943 after the Robber Bridegroom. 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. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. 3. Review and critique podcasts produced by other students as a basis for creating their own segments. 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. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. 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. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. 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. 183). Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. Foots was in charge. 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. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. Updates? Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. 44Here is the same confused hodgepodge of myth and fable we can find in The Wide Net. They are the wonderful fictions out of which an adult life finally emerges, but never forgets. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 6It 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 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. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. The roses needed a lot of water. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. in Marrs 103). Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. 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 said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. And the final story in The Wide Net (and thus the collection itself) concludes with the portrait of a young woman who is rejected, and is forced to face absolute desolation and a serial rape. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. 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. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. 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 citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. 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. 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. 29A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Missisippi Delta in 1923. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. date the date you are citing the material. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. 2023 . 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. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). 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. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 26I am ready to plead, however. 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Hickory tree there will be yellow. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. 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. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. 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. 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. 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. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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. 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. 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. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. 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