the wide net summary

Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? William Wallace Jamieson, the first words of the story, and a name I will return to, is a young man who has been married to his wife, Hazel, for a year. 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. Its so sad that the culture that could have put these good hearted folks bare-feet in the creek was long ago swallowed up by progress. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. Perhaps nature itself, the mother of all myth, is the true heart of the story. 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. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. There I was shocked to learn I may have been born into a myth, despite myself. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece. 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. Robbie is right to be frightened. 184). I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. 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. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. Job Description Summary: The Executive Assistant is responsible for the management of the Chamber's database and assisting the President & CEO with the day-to-day management of the Chamber office, including governance . The last date is today's He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. It had blossomed overnight during the boom years of the twenties. Grady is already a sort of father to Brucie. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. 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). This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. What was her first novel and when was it published? 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. Now us got scales, Sam cried out. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. Usually there would be shade trees to stretch out under and cool off, but there were none here. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. They have to go and get the wide net, though, and that belongs to a man called Doc. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. The Chamber also achieved 4-star accreditation in 2018, an honor achieved by only 204 of the 7,022 chambers in the country. The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. in Marrs 103). He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. 183). Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. 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. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. . 43When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, One Writers Beginnings. 16What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. publication online or last modification online. 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. 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. 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. 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. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. The Wide Net and Other Stories deliberately refuses to shy away from vice, racism, pride, self-indulgence, and violence. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. 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. No wonder Eudora Welty was ready to lash out if anyone else showed the same dimwittedness as the reviewer in Time Magazine. There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. 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. Neither does Eudora Welty in her autobiography, and she is one of the most southern writers who ever existed. . See production, box office & company info. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. Foots was in charge. The Golden Apples. 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. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty. The river never seems the same, yet even when William Wallace forgets its name, its ageless identity is never in question: The winding river looked old sometimes, when it ran wrinkled and deep under high banks where the roots of trees hung down, and sometimes it seemed to be only a young creek, shining with the colors of wildflowers (Welty, Collected Stories 178). Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. 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. 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. Walker Percy has written somewhere that a boy who has a Hamilton from his grandfather is a true son of the South, and I still have mine. 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. What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. 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). One was the Florida artist A.E. Then he announced Boys, look right here, the Judge is his granddaddy. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. I walked with him often on his way to his office in the courthouse down by the river. 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. 19Her reaction is more than understandable. Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. Twain, Mark. Sometimes referred to as a "network of networks," the Internet emerged in the United States in the 1970s but did not become visible to the general public until the early 1990s. Saying so, I freely admit my pirouetting into The Wide Net does take some special pleading. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 90). When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. 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, What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. It was the county seat, so there were a few imposing public buildings. 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. . Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. 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). 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. 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. 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 shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s. 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. Packet switching was thought of as a better and faster method to transfer data than the hardware solution to the problem, i.e., the circuitry. Soon after his triumphant dive, William Wallace smiles for the first time, and falls asleep, but not for long. Other people join in too. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. I had not forgotten the references to history and to historical figures in some of the stories of The Wide Net and Other Stories, notably First Love, and A Still Moment, to name the most powerful. 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. William Jamieson comes home one night from being out with friends and finds a note from his pregnant wife, who is threatening suicide by jumping off bridge He calls his friends and they go to the river searching for her, they also recruit bystanders to help out . 183). Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. It is a plunge into the inner depths that strains every fibre of his being, and tests his spirit to the limit. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. 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 one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. The second half of the story is rich in events, but the outcome is never in doubt. AccueilNumros67ArticlesConverging Toward the Human: Myth 1It might seem odd to find me turning to Eudora Weltys story The Wide Net the day I learned I had been invited to respond to the theme of Southern myth (the all-purpose, made-to-order, sempiternel Southern myth). 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. in Marrs 103). They marvel over the snake, but seem to feel satisfied by their feast. 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. 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. I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 8). Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty, Collected Stories 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. Walker Percy has written somewhere that a boy who has a Hamilton from his grandfather is a true son of the South, and I still have mine. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. 28What was missing in this southern town was southern history, or at least any striking display of history. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. The web value rate of bigpicture.net is 49,209 USD. 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. It is then, after they've eaten, that they see a giant snake that they call the King of the Snakes. In. 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. [] Magnolia and live-oak never die. 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. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. Print. 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. I should make it clear it was not the quality of the scholarship in what I read that puzzled me, but my consternation in not finding anything of my own life in the popular myths contained in the books. Doc doesn't believe that Hazel would have drowned herself, but he lends the men the net just the same. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. It was told by Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy. 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. 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. Ignorant as I was, I had no doubt I was southern, born and bred. At least the small boys have names that set them apart. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. The second date is today's It was, however, filled with southerners. . 178). Boys, he said, I didnt run, but I did some mighty high walking. I hope I have not run away from the myth of the South, but I admit I may have done some high walking. Thank you for the indulgence, and the invitation. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. 180). 36There is one more story about my grandfather that I need to relate. We saw the same films at the same movie theater, even though the whites sat downstairs and the blacks up in the balcony. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. When Virgil finds a string of beads in the river, he gives them to Sam and Robbie. from the Chandigarh University, India have published the research: Genome-wide identi fi cation, expression pro ling, and functional analysis of ammonium transporter 2 (AMT2) gene family in cassava ( crantz), in the Journal: (JOURNAL) how: Showed that these three genes were upregulated in different degrees under the condition of ammonium Genome-wide identi . 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. 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. Corrections? . Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. 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. Here is the same confused hodgepodge of myth and fable we can find in The Wide Net. They are the wonderful fictions out of which an adult life finally emerges, but never forgets. 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. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. 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. 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. 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. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. 5I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. 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. Be the first to contribute! The only shade was provided by a long tin shed next to the sludge bin. 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). There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Engraved in large letters beneath the names was the single word: Murdered. These were the graves of her maternal grandparents who had been viciously axed to death by two men looking for easy prey and a few dollars. Plunge into the Wide Net, though, and that belongs to a fault finally. Word: Murdered or 3 dates in Rainbows: the life of Neale... 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