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. 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. 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. 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. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. 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. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. 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. 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). He no longer fears Hazels mother, and turns away without a flinch when she appears. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). At least the small boys have names that set them apart. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. Us is the fishes (Welty. I am ready to plead, however. 178). To begin with, the southern world I grew up in, a small coastal town in Florida in the years after WWII, was not all that representative of the South. When he wakes up he affirms his new sense of power and potency by tying a catfish to his belt and launching into a wild Dionysian dance. . 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. 22There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. 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. 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. 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. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. Beanie deserves his own story. 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. 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). Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. 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. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. 15The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. , 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). Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. To begin with, the southern world I grew up in, a small coastal town in Florida in the years after WWII, was not all that representative of the South. Hickory tree there will be yellow. LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. 23Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. Its a Mississippi backwoods flash mob and its just a heck of a lot of fun. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. Start your 48-hour free trial to get access to more than 30,000 additional guides and more than 350,000 Homework Help questions answered by our experts. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. The Malones are like horses, and the Doyles are never without their dogs. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. 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. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. Forkner has also published three books on John James Audubon: Journals and Selected Writings in the Penguin Nature Classics series, with an introduction and editorial commentary; and two in Europe: the two-volume Journaux et Rcits (Atalante and the City of Nantes), a comprehensive collection of Audubons writings in French, newly translated, with a full biographical introduction and editorial commentary, and the John James Audubon Portfolio (Edition de la Main Fleurie) which includes an introduction, a selection of Audubons letters, and forty-eight reproductions of Audubons original watercolors printed on hand-made paper designed to replicate the paper used in the early nineteenth century. Robert Fitzgerald. 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. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. 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). Scottish heroes and William Wallace Jamieson of The Wide Net, surely, we might be tempted to think, the combination brings southern history into the story despite all evidence to the contrary. 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. Omissions? , notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. The second is the date of He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. In keeping with the Scottish link, it might be reversed to be read the son of James. 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. Print. What I remember most about growing up was the joy of being outside for most of the day in a sort of tropical paradise. 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. But they remain children, and act their age. 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. 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). The Great Wide Sea (2008), a novel by M. H. Herlong, follows sixteen-year-old Ben Byron, who mourns the loss of his mother with his younger brothers, Gerry and Dylan, while spending a year at sea.As Ben processes his grief, he clashes with his father, until he mysteriously vanishes from the boat one morning. But there is an even better reason not to insist too much on the historical significance of names in The Wide Net. Names are chosen for us, not the other way around, and The Wide Net insists upon individual choice as the primary measure of character. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. . Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). 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.. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. 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. 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. This is the advantage of relying on memory rather than myth when digging back for the truth. in Marrs 103). 8The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty. Summary Themes Questions & Answers Analysis Characters Quotes Start Free Trial . Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. What was her first novel and when was it published? 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. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. 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. 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. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. All of these stories were about life around the old family farms and houses back in Homerville, Georgia, not far from the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. 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. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. 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, Collected Stories 176). 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). Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. Foots was in charge. Print. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil 166). After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. 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. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. CRM is one of the top technology investments that organizations can make. 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. 25I began this paper with a confession. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightnin drawed a pitchfork right on our grandpappys cheek, stayed till he died (Welty, Collected Stories 183). New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. 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. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . in Marrs 70-71). 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. The Aeneid. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. 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. 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, Collected Stories 180). 183). Boyd, Valerie. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. Summary of The Wide Net by Welty. Furthermore, wide networks can successfully learn with a . Since in the South, as I had finally learned in Chapel Hill, history tends to breed myth as a kind of natural law, I needed at least to consider the question. Trans. 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. , and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. 179). They all carried their classic illustrations. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. 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. The roses needed a lot of water. 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. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. 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). Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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 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. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. 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. The packet switching technology was essential to the development of . 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. 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. 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. 181). The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. 180). 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. 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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 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. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. 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. (qtd. Print. They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. 36There is one more story about my grandfather that I need to relate. 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. 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. 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. That was only part of the legend. 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. 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. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original 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. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. In Life on the Mississippi, 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). eNotes.com, Inc. 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. publication online or last modification online. 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. The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s. She is one of Hazels cousins. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 102). date the date you are citing the material. His name was Patrick Duval. 183). PBS please bring this back. 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. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. 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 was on a mission. 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. Once every now and then I rode my horse to school where there was a rail fence and where the teachers allowed us to eat our lunch sitting down by the horses. eNotes Editorial. 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. [] Any day now the change will come. 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. To the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions who owns the Net Hazels evokes... 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