Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. I had fished and hunted in the great inland swamps, and had built rafts of giant bamboo to ride with my friends down the St Lucie River, surely as haunting and as hidden away as the Pearl River in The Wide Net. The alligators slept with the water lilies and the night-blooming cereus, and the Spanish moss fell in thick curtains on both banks. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. 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. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. 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. Does anybody really believe there is a body in the creek or are they just having great time being outdoors together in the precious last waning days of early fall. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. It was a far better show than the movie. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. 23Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 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. if there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original publication in traditional print. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. Print. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. 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). Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1781. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wide-Net-and-Other-Stories. 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. 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. 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. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. 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. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace and Company 1943 We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 119. reference info. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. 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. 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.. 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. Old Doc lives on a hill and can usually be found in his rocking chair. 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. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. 180). 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. 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. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. 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 Aeneid. 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. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty, Collected Stories 176). The Wide Net. 27Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. 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. They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. When the search party spies a large water snake, a local legend everyone knows as the King of Snakes, William Wallace stares him down. No police, no first responders, no telephones, no helicopters just the local men and boys with an old fish net. 4. 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). 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. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. 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. 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. Updates? . County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. 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. Print. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella, . 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. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 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. Foots was in charge. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. 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. 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. . He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. 14The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. I say this because when, published a review that claimed that the stories were about as human as a fish. Eudora Welty was never much affected by reviews, good or bad, but this one raised her hackles, and she wrote to Diarmuid Russell: I saw the. Salesforce has a wide range of tools that can be integrated with it to boost productivity. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. 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. 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. Foots waited until they were all inside. The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. When William Wallace praises Hazels intelligence, Virgil agrees: Shes a lot smarter than her cousins in Beulah Edna Earle never did get to be what youd call a heavy thinker. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. N 102 Library of America Series. 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. 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. He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Hickory tree there will be yellow. Furthermore, wide networks can successfully learn with a . 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. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. "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. 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. I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. But they remain children, and act their age. 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. cite this page as follows: "the wide net - summary"enotes publishinged. 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. 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. 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. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. It was, however, filled with southerners. I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. 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.. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. 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. 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. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. 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. The Golden Apples. They catch a baby alligator and the Malone brothers insist that they want to keep it. , 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). 102). After all, where else can I look for a better source? [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. 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. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which standardized communication between servers and clients. She is one of Hazels cousins. Her reaction is more than understandable. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. 17She also asks Russell: Do you think I dare to have honest-to-God people walking around in the stories? Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. Marrs, Suzanne. I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. Eudora Welty is a master of subjective impressionism, but there is not an escapist reflex in all her work. 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. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. His name was Patrick Duval. The "Wide Residual Networks" paper linked makes a nice summary at the bottom of p8: . 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. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. 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. Backus, locally known as Beanie. 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. 26I am ready to plead, however. 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. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. . When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. Remember that (Welty. 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. 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. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. 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. Still, if I should apologize, I do. Summary of The Wide Net by Welty. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. 9Other 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. the citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. Backus, locally known as Beanie. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. 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. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. ISBN: 978-1-88301155-0 976 pages. The first page of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, written in March 1989 (Image: CERN) Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990.Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990. 180). Missisippi Delta in 1923. The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955) are collections of short stories, and The Eye of the Story (1978) is a volume of essays. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) 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). Remember that (Welty, Collected Stories 176). The roses needed a lot of water. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 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). Vergil. I began this paper with a confession. Us is the fishes (Welty. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. 18Since William Wallace cannot be contained in any single myth, or even in a multitude of myths, it should not have surprised me that he is able to exist untouched by history, or at least untouched by a southern identity usually defined and distinguished as being overwhelmed and overdetermined by history. 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. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. Omissions? Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. Delta Wedding in 1946. 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. 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. 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. publication in traditional print. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. 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. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. 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. The wide net Adjust Share by Eudora Welty, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. 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. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. Since William Wallace cannot be contained in any single myth, or even in a multitude of myths, it should not have surprised me that he is able to exist untouched by history, or at least untouched by a southern identity usually defined and distinguished as being overwhelmed and overdetermined by history. 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. 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. 15The story ends with Hazel calling his name from the bedroom. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. 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. 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. 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. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. 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. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined . What I remember most about growing up was the joy of being outside for most of the day in a sort of tropical paradise. May 1942 issue Download PDF From the Archive. 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, One Writers Beginnings 104). 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. A man named William Wallace Jamieson has a pregnant wife called Hazel, and he's been going out a lot lately until finally, one night, he stays out all night. 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). She begins by describing a milestone in her childhood, a gift of the ten-volume Our Wonder World on her sixth or seventh birthday: 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 Pilgrims Progress and a long piece of Gulliver. Soon, people begin to ask if the fish are for sale, and William Wallace sells them. 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. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. They were later given to the University of Florida. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. 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. I 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. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. 176). They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. [] Any day now the change will come. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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