[] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. 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. History Of The Internet. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 - July 23, 2001) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, best known for her realistic portrayal of the South. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. 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. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. Print. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. The story recounts how Sister, the intelligent and ironic narrator, comes to fall out with her family over incidents arising from her younger sister Stella-Rondo's sudden reappearance in their small southern town, minus her husband and with a two-year-old "adopted" child in tow. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. in Marrs 67-68). Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. 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. Welty, Eudora. 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. 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). Foots waited until they were all inside. 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. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. 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.. 37Beanie deserves his own story. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty. 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. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. 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. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. 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.. Robbie is right to be frightened. 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. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. Foots was in charge. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. 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. . My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. CRM is one of the top technology investments that organizations can make. 2 Virgil of course is Dantes guide in The Divine Comedy through the Inferno and most of Purgatory. 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. [Anthony Herrera; Rachel McPherson; Marcus Viscidi; Kyra Sedgwick; Barry Tubb; Tim Ransom; M Josef Sommer; Glen Roven; Eudora Welty;] -- Set in rural Mississippi, the story focuses on the turbulent relationship of a young married couple, William Wallace and his wife Hazel, in the American South in 1933. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. "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. AccueilNumros67ArticlesConverging Toward the Human: Myth 1It might seem odd to find me turning to Eudora Weltys story The Wide Net the day I learned I had been invited to respond to the theme of Southern myth (the all-purpose, made-to-order, sempiternel Southern myth). But they remain children, and act their age. 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. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 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.. Orlando: A Harvest Book, 2006. It is more of a distraction than a signpost, unlike, I would be the first to admit, the names of Virgil and Hazel, more fixed in their roles.2 If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. Omissions? 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). eNotes Editorial. 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, Collected Stories 171). 21His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. 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. 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. 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. 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. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. She had just published a masterpiece of modern realism in which dream and the inner world are as vividly brought to life as the outside, but this is an affirmation of the living human mind, not an evasion. 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. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. 172). Does anybody really believe there is a body in the creek or are they just having great time being outdoors together in the precious last waning days of early fall. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. She is one of Hazels cousins. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. 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. 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. 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 last date is today's William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. 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. 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. 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. When he returned to his house, he found Hazel was not there, and she'd left a note saying that she had gone to drown herself in the river and that he'd be sorry for his behavior. 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. My grandfather, as I will discuss later on, was one of the reasons I had trouble with the grand southern myths I discovered at the university. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. They all carried their classic illustrations. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. It is more of a distraction than a signpost, unlike, I would be the first to admit, the names of Virgil and Hazel, more fixed in their roles. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. 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. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. 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. 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. Myth 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. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. The shock will take a little time to absorb, but he has now found himself, and is beginning to embrace his new role as a father. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. 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. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. 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. 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. 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. They all carried their classic illustrations. Vergil. 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). His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. 33In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. He walked on. 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. Print. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. The roses needed a lot of water. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. 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. Remember that (Welty. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. See production, box office & company info. 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. Walking down Orange Avenue he stopped in each of the three barber shops to tip his hat and say hello, and then picked up his daily cigar at the post office. When she allows William his ritual role of thinking himself the man of the house by letting him tamely slap and spank her, the reconciliation is complete. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. 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. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) 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. The second is the date of 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. The second date is today's A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. The Wide Net. I began this paper with a confession. 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. Other people join in too. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. 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. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty. Portail de ressources lectroniques en sciences humaines et sociales, Flannerys Ghost: Paradigms of the Holy Ghost in Three Stories by Flannery OConnor, The Journal of the Short Story in English: presentation, Joycean Drama and the Remaking of Yeats's Irish Theatre in Ivy Day in the Committee Room", Catalogue des 609 revues. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. 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). 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. 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. 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. 4Rereading The Wide Net brought many of these memories back to mind, and it brought back to mind too my dismay in Chapel Hill at fitting them into a theory of myth, or even at weaving them into a common pattern of southern identity. The shock will take a little time to absorb, but he has now found himself, and is beginning to embrace his new role as a father. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. Robbie worries about lightning. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. 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.. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. Already a member? 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. Jump-start your essay with our outlining tool to make sure you have all the main points of your essay covered. 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. , 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). After all, where else can I look for a better source? He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . 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. 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. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. 25I began this paper with a confession. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. 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. 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. 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. "The Wide Net - Summary" eNotes Publishing This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. 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. 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. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . 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. 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. 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). 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