I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of. 171). Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. 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. Trans. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "The Wide Window" by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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. Other people join in too. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. The Wide Net (185) :Eudora Welty Breaking up of the party Discussed by Jenna Campbell William Wallace Jameson Hazel In old 1300s Great war hero of Scotland Williams Wife 3 mths Pregnate Virgil in the wars for Scottish Independence Conflicted main character, Best friend of William almost like his voice of reason Also In Dante's Inferno The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). In The Wide Net, William Wallace must make his own way, and history, southern or otherwise, mythical or not, does not provide him (or the reader) with any guidelines. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. Sir Walter Scott celebrated both William Wallace and Bonnie Prince Charles, the latter in the most popular series of historical novels ever written, the Waverly novels. The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. 179). Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. He walked on. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. CRM is one of the top technology investments that organizations can make. 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. He walked on. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. 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. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. 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. 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. the second is . 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 doesn't seem to be a regularization effect from very high depth in residual net- works as wide networks with the same number of parameters as thin ones can learn same or better representations. It 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. 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. 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. 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. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. She ends. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. 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. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. 26I am ready to plead, however. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. 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. 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. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Be the first to contribute! 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). 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). In fact, it is not a baptism at all. Print. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. Summary of The Wide Net by Welty. He was on a mission. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. 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. 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. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. 173). The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. They were later given to the University of Florida. 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. 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. . Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. Subscribe. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. 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. That was only part of the legend. 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. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. What was her first novel and when was it published? 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. The second date is today's The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. 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. Robbie is right to be frightened. 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. 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. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. 183). He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. 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, Collected Stories 180). Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. The river never seems the same, yet even when William Wallace forgets its name, its ageless identity is never in question: The winding river looked old sometimes, when it ran wrinkled and deep under high banks where the roots of trees hung down, and sometimes it seemed to be only a young creek, shining with the colors of wildflowers (Welty. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. 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. Eudora Welty: A Biography. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. 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.. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 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. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. 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 He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 24But 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. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. They have to go and get the wide net,. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organisation and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). in Marrs 103). It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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, . Download PDF More from Eudora Welty From the. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. 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. 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. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. Delta Wedding in 1946. Print. bio notes: born: 4/13/1909 died: 7/23/2001 born as: Eudora Welty nationality: USA American short-story writer and novelist whose work is focused with great precision on the regional manners . The river never seems the same, yet even when William Wallace forgets its name, its ageless identity is never in question: The winding river looked old sometimes, when it ran wrinkled and deep under high banks where the roots of trees hung down, and sometimes it seemed to be only a young creek, shining with the colors of wildflowers (Welty, Collected Stories 178). Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. 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). 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. [] Any day now the change will come. What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. 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. 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. Foots was in charge. in Marrs 70-71). 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). Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. 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. 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. 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. 179). 172). What interests me more as the years go on is the life story of the individual southerner. Creative Commons - Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Voir la notice dans le catalogue OpenEdition, Plan du site Crdits Flux de syndication, Politique de confidentialit Gestion des cookies, Nous adhrons OpenEdition Journals dit avec Lodel Accs rserv, Vous allez tre redirig vers OpenEdition Search, Special Issue: Representation and Rewriting of Myths in Southern Short Fiction, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me), It 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). A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. 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. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. the citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. The Wide Net and Other Stories. Now that I have tried to do justice to my rereading of the story, which was, and is, my main purpose throughout these reflections, there should be no objection if I back up a bit and mention a few of the memories I carried with me when I entered the new world of the Old South at the university. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. 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. 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. N 102 Library of America Series. , 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). 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). When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. Robbie worries about lightning. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. . 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 shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. 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. HIGHLIGHTS who: February et al. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. eNotes Editorial. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. 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. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. Summary Themes Questions & Answers Analysis Characters Quotes Start Free Trial . It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. It was a far better show than the movie. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. 22There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. 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 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. Like the theater, like the wearing of masks, like the playing of games, myths are ways of trying out the world, testing other lives, often for the sheer joy of forgetting our own predicament. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. The father of the white boys is rumored to have drowned in the Pearl River, and the father of the black boys had been struck by lightning and, as Robbie cries out during a storm, was dead three days, dead as that-there axe (Welty. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. 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. 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. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. The Collected Stories. Full Time Paid Internship Job Summary: Be a part of an innovative team and culture The Physical and Post-Production Technology department is responsible for a wide array of technologies across Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, and various other Walt Disney groups. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 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. 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. 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. Packet switching was thought of as a better and faster method to transfer data than the hardware solution to the problem, i.e., the circuitry. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. 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. 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. 43When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, One Writers Beginnings. Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 30But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in The Wide Net. His name was Patrick Duval. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. 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. In the end, they seem happy and content again. 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