The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) He saw that the bodies of the frozen birds had fallen out of the trees, and he fell down and wept for his father and mother, to whom he had not said good-bye (Welty, First Love,, (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. 172). 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. 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. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. She could have easily searched out one of the old Backus crowd willing to share the memory of Beanies role in the funeral and the missing headstone. 41Just 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. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. 37Beanie deserves his own story. . Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 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. 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. 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. He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. Right after he got back, though, some of his old friends met him at a local tavern and asked him if it were true that he had run away from the fight. 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. 2. Print. 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. It syncs contacts, emails, and events from email tools to Salesforce. It was a far better show than the movie. 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). 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. originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace and Company 1943 We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 119. reference info. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. He goes with them to drag the river. 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. 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. 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. 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. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. 179). N 102 Library of America Series. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. 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. 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). 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. 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. I should make it clear it was not the quality of the scholarship in what I read that puzzled me, but my consternation in not finding anything of my own life in the popular myths contained in the books. Boyd, Valerie. Synopsis It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. 90). When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. 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. Backus, locally known as Beanie. It was, however, filled with southerners. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. 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 second date is today's His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. 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. 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. The roses needed a lot of water. 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. There is one more story about my grandfather that I need to relate. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 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. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. 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. The name of Edna Earle comes from the heroine of the most popular novel in the South after the Civil War, St Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans. 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. 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. I began this paper with a confession. But Hazel is no rabbit as Virgil makes clear: Anybody can freeze a. , that wants to he says, and promptly chases the rabbit away: Was you out catching cotton-tails, or was you out catching your wife? (Welty. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. 183). So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. She ends. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. 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. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. 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. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. 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. Hickory tree there will be yellow. 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. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. One day on a summer trip to Homerville, my mother took me to a field in the countryside and showed me two old tombstones under a tree. Print. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. 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. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. 179). 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. 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. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. The last date is today's 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. William Wallace keeps diving down to search for Hazel until, finally, the group decides to stop and cook some of the fish they've got for a meal. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. After all, where else can I look for a better source? 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. . Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. Remember that (Welty. publication online or last modification online. 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. 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. The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Backus, locally known as Beanie. The Wide Net. 8The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. 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. What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? 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. She is one of Hazels cousins. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. He had never been given much credit for his act, though in the recent biography of Hurston, by Valerie Boyd, written long after my visit home, he is singled out for praise (436). He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. 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. The Golden Apples. 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. 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, 172). But the town itself was lively and busy and relatively sheltered from the poverty and misery that remained a plague throughout the greater South even in the 1950s. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. The absence of history serves the same purpose, I believe, as the excessive abundance of symbol and myth the reader must negotiate before setting his sights on the inner spirit William Wallace possesses to exist all by himself. Eudora Welty is a master of subjective impressionism, but there is not an escapist reflex in all her work. Print. When he surfaces he is still in shock: And when William Wallace came up it was in an agony from submersion, which seemed an agony of the blood and of the very heart, so woeful he looked (Welty. 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. 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. 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. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 3. Review and critique podcasts produced by other students as a basis for creating their own segments. 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. , 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). Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. 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. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. In. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. Print. enotes editorial.vsenotes.com20 jan. 2023 . 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. Summary. 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. 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. 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. in Marrs 70-71). They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. . They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. It will not be lost on the reader that the structure of The Wide Net roughly follows the same literary source, proceeding from hell, to purgatory, and finally to paradise. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. 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. 16What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. in Marrs 103). The town was neatly divided into black and white neighborhoods, but my grandfathers house had been deliberately chosen because it was right on the border between the two and my cousins and I played and talked with black children every day. 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. . The Aeneid. 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). The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. 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