the wide net summary

As I have already mentioned, my grandfather lies at the heart of these memories. 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. 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. 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. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. If there are two dates, the date of publication and appearance 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. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty. 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 never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 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 towered over the others, who were all big and tough. Remember that (Welty, Collected Stories 176). He walked on. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. He has proven his love to her by spending the whole day looking for her, and he has also bonded with his friends and other other men during the process. . Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. 22There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. The scenery the pace and the dialog are like a soothing low speed raft trip. 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. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. 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. 178). It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. This is the truth that William Wallace discovers by himself, and somehow memory, lost and found, is crucial to the discovery. He was on a mission. It was, however, filled with southerners. 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. 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. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. Delta Wedding in 1946. The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. The wide net. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. My grandfather, as I will discuss later on, was one of the reasons I had trouble with the grand southern myths I discovered at the university. They all carried their classic illustrations. in Marrs 70-71). Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. 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. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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. 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. He surely died the poorest judge in all of Florida, but he did leave me his gold Hamilton watch which had been given him when he retired from working on the railroad as a young man in Georgia. The story recounts how Sister, the intelligent and ironic narrator, comes to fall out with her family over incidents arising from her younger sister Stella-Rondo's sudden reappearance in their small southern town, minus her husband and with a two-year-old "adopted" child in tow. 46I have talked about William Wallace and The Wide Net, but I have said little about the assigned subject, the myth of the South. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. (qtd. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. 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. LCRI Net-Zero 2050: U.S. Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization Scenario Analysis # Executive Summary As part of the Low-Carbon Resources Initiative open in new window (LCRI), EPRI and GTI Energy led an integrated energy system scenario modeling exercise to evaluate alternative technology strategies for achieving economy-wide net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the United States by 2050. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. I believe my shock at having to account to myself as a southerner when I arrived in my early twenties in Chapel Hill, and faced the impressive body of scholarship on southern myth then in fashion, helps explain why. cite this page as follows: "the wide net - summary"enotes publishinged. The packet switching technology was essential to the development of . Print. 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. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 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 Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. But the town itself was lively and busy and relatively sheltered from the poverty and misery that remained a plague throughout the greater South even in the 1950s. eNotes.com I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. 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. We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92YplusWhen Eudora Welty read at 92Y on April 22, 1985, it had been 32 y. 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. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. They all carried their classic illustrations. Learn about student-produced podcasts by reading and discussing the article "Students and Teachers, From K to 12, Hit the Podcasts.". 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. Jamieson takes a bit more twisting to unravel a historical connection. 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. 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. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Its going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog thats ripe and have fresh meat to eat. . Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. What I remember most about growing up was the joy of being outside for most of the day in a sort of tropical paradise. 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. In The Wide Net, William Wallace must make his own way, and history, southern or otherwise, mythical or not, does not provide him (or the reader) with any guidelines. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. 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. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. When later on I read Faulkners praise of natural courtesy I thought of Foots at once. Mendelian randomization (MR) harnesses genetic variants as instrumental variables (IVs) to study the causal effect of exposure on outcome using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies. 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. 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. 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. The never forgetting is another gift of becoming oneself, the power of memory. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. 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. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. 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. His edition of Alexander Stephens prison diary, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, was published by L.S.U. 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. Like the theater, like the wearing of masks, like the playing of games, myths are ways of trying out the world, testing other lives, often for the sheer joy of forgetting our own predicament. 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. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. 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. Sir Walter Scott celebrated both William Wallace and Bonnie Prince Charles, the latter in the most popular series of historical novels ever written, the Waverly novels. The white families, like my own, had migrated there from their farms in South Georgia in the hope of improving their prospects. Weltys mother refused to have a copy in her house. 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. 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. Portail de ressources lectroniques en sciences humaines et sociales, Flannerys Ghost: Paradigms of the Holy Ghost in Three Stories by Flannery OConnor, The Journal of the Short Story in English: presentation, Joycean Drama and the Remaking of Yeats's Irish Theatre in Ivy Day in the Committee Room", Catalogue des 609 revues. 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. 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. But the town itself was lively and busy and relatively sheltered from the poverty and misery that remained a plague throughout the greater South even in the 1950s. Still, if I should apologize, I do. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. He was a tall dignified man who dressed in a white suit and always had a Stetson hat on his head or in his hand. 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. eNotes Editorial. It syncs contacts, emails, and events from email tools to Salesforce. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. William Wallace has done the real catching, unless of course, it has been Hazel herself. 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. 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. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. In 1940 she had accepted the offer of Diarmuid Russell (son of the Irish poet George Russell) to be her agent. 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. 16What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. He lets the little infant plant fall free, and from now on the search is over. 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. 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. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . He was the county judge, famous for his fairness in court, and loved by everyone who knew him, thus by the entire town. Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. 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. Download PDF More from Eudora Welty From the. 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. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. He surely died the poorest judge in all of Florida, but he did leave me his gold Hamilton watch which had been given him when he retired from working on the railroad as a young man in Georgia. It 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. 23Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. , notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. They stamped the ground and pawed each other, more like horses than men. 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. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. She could have easily searched out one of the old Backus crowd willing to share the memory of Beanies role in the funeral and the missing headstone. In my town there were cattle ranches and orange groves to the west, and a small fleet of shrimping boats chugging back and forth on the Indian River to and from the Atlantic. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. He returns to his wife better capable of living a meaningful, fulfilling life. 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