the wide net summary

In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. 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. When William Wallace gets home, he notices a night rainbow over his house, though it clearly hadn't rained there. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. 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. 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. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? Missisippi Delta in 1923. 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. 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. 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 had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. 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. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in. . 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 in Marrs 70-71). Still, if I should apologize, I do. 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. He took me in and introduced me to each worker by name. But Hazel is no rabbit as Virgil makes clear: Anybody can freeze a rabbit, 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, Collected Stories 172). See production, box office & company info. Rereading 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 storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. 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. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in Time Magazine. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. 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. 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. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. Robbie is right to be frightened. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. When he comes back the next morning, Hazel is gone, and he finds a letter from her telling him she has gone to drown herself in the river. They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. 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). PBS please bring this back. 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). But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. 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. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. [] Any day now the change will come. 40I have tried to explain, to myself more than to anyone else, that the multiplication of myth and legend in The Wide Net is there, in all its rich jumbling, to nudge the reader elsewhere. 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. eNotes.com publication in traditional print. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the Aeneid, and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. 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. Phone orders: 1-800-964-5778 Request product #201055. 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. But I learned too that the family prided itself on having been against slavery, and on having never owned a slave. 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. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. 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. 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. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. 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. In. 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. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. Foots was in charge. 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. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. 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 I found a note to myself slipped in the pages of my old single volume edition of the collection relating Eudora Weltys initial concept of writing a fictional history of the Old Natchez Trace. The 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. The Pearl River is the prime example in The Wide Net and therefore the source of selfhood that will save William Wallace. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. Then there are the other adult members of the search party, the six Doyle brothers and their dogs, and the eight Malone brothers, eight giants with great long black eyelashes (Welty, Collected Stories 173). There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. And the final story in The Wide Net (and thus the collection itself) concludes with the portrait of a young woman who is rejected, and is forced to face absolute desolation and a serial rape. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wide-Net-and-Other-Stories. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. The Aeneid. 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. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. 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. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. , 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). 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. HIGHLIGHTS who: February et al. 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. The packet switching technology was essential to the development of . 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. 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. 176). Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. He was on a mission. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. She is one of Hazels cousins. deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. the second is . That was only part of the legend. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. She is one of Hazels cousins. 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. in Marrs 67-68). Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. 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. 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. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). They all carried their classic illustrations. 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. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. 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. 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. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. Corrections? Ben Forkner, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me),Journal of the Short Story in English [En ligne], 67|Autumn 2016, mis en ligne le 01 dcembre 2018, consult le 02 mars 2023. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. 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. The pounding is musical, given that Eudora Welty is playing the instrument, but it can be felt all through the story, from the ironic chord of the first three words all the way to the final throb of the last line. I am ready to plead, however. After all, where else can I look for a better source? The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. 37Beanie deserves his own story. 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. 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. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. 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. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. But they remain children, and act their age. They were later given to the University of Florida. 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. He told me that my grandfather had told him he had left Georgia to come to Florida because he hated the way blacks were treated. 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. 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. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. Backus, locally known as Beanie. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. , notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. The Malones are indistinguishable from each other, and so are the Doyles. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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. The Golden Apples. The second is the date of 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). 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. Trans. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 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. 179). Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. 4. Life on the Mississippi. Us is the fishes (Welty, Collected Stories 183). Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. . Robert Fitzgerald. 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). 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. Summary Themes Questions & Answers Analysis Characters Quotes Start Free Trial . 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. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. 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. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). 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. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? . 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. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). 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. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. It was a far better show than the movie. Boyd, Valerie. 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. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original 173). 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. 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. William must will himself into a new man, and as a Jamieson, he must cease being a perpetual son, and affirm his status as a father. Here is the same confused hodgepodge of myth and fable we can find in The Wide Net. 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