the wide net summary
[] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty. He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. 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. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. 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. 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. 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. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. 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The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. Summary of the net Rating: 6,6/10 562reviews The "net" is a term that refers to the internet, which is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that allows people to communicate and access information from all around the world. 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. 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. publication in traditional print. 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. 45Of course writing her autobiography is a proof of that power, but Eudora Welty goes further. William goes to get his friend, Virgil, with whom he'd spent the night carousing, and the pair of them round up some neighborhood men to drag the river. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. The Aeneid. The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. 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. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). 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. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. 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. 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.. 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. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. It was a far better show than the movie. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. He goes with them to drag the river. The last date is today's 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. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. . Though 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. 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. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. 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. 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. 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. Print. 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. Still, if I should apologize, I do. 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. 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 possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. 16What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. The web value rate of bigpicture.net is 49,209 USD. The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s. His name was Patrick Duval. 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. Had he suspected down there, like some secret, the real, the true trouble that Hazel had fallen into, about which words in a letter could not speak Or in a myth, I cannot help adding. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. Omissions? Here time, also, is subject to confluence. 23Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. date the date you are citing the material. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 20Still, going back to William Wallace, I can hear someone somewhere asking about his name. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. 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. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. Robert Fitzgerald. Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. 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. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. 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. Trans. Myth and meaning in that book are indivisible. 25I began this paper with a confession. 2. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. 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.. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. Given her love of Hurston, a spell had been cast, and the promise of a new myth stopped her in her tracks. William goes out one night with two friends, gets drunk and lies all night in a ditch playing the harmonica. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, 2004. 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, Collected Stories 183). Just 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. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. May 1942 issue Download PDF From the Archive. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. 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 . There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. He is holding fast to a little green ribbon of plant, root and all (Welty, Collected Stories 181). But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. the citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 37Beanie deserves his own story. Get this from a library! Now us got scales, Sam cried out. 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. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. 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. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. 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). 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. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. The Wide Net. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. 29A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. 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. 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. 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. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. 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. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. The Chamber also achieved 4-star accreditation in 2018, an honor achieved by only 204 of the 7,022 chambers in the country. . Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. the second is . The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 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. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. 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 himself would have been too modest to mention it. Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. Robbie worries about lightning. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. One of the most famous sons of a James was Bonnie Prince Charles, son of James Stuart, grandson of King James II, and leader of the final Jacobite Rebellion in the middle of the eighteenth century to restore the Scottish Stuarts to the throne of England and Scotland. What I remember most about growing up was the joy of being outside for most of the day in a sort of tropical paradise. 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. 1943. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. 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. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Myth 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. "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. 22There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. 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. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. Vergil. Trans. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. This was her 3rd book of fiction, another collection of stories; published in 1943 after the Robber Bridegroom. 34I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. 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. Other people join in too. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. 31He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. Print. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. History Of The Internet. [Anthony Herrera; Rachel McPherson; Marcus Viscidi; Kyra Sedgwick; Barry Tubb; Tim Ransom; M Josef Sommer; Glen Roven; Eudora Welty;] -- Set in rural Mississippi, the story focuses on the turbulent relationship of a young married couple, William Wallace and his wife Hazel, in the American South in 1933. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty. 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. 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 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. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. 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. After all, where else can I look for a better source? 4. Apparently, there was one male survivor of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. 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. 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 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. Marrs, Suzanne. , notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. 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. Geographically, I had lived outside as a boy in the steamy heat of southern Florida. 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. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. 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