Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. He did not smoke the cigar, he chewed it, and as a boy it was best to stay on his windward side. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. 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. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. But the history of the South itself came to me mainly through the stories I heard in my family. 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. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. That was only part of the legend. 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. But I digress, drifting with the memory. 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.. 29A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. They were later given to the University of Florida. 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. Summary. But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. What impressed me most was the incongruity of seeing such a stark inscription on a Baptist tombstone. Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 - July 23, 2001) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, best known for her realistic portrayal of the South. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. 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 hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. 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. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? . 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. 183). He was a black deputy who had saved Hurstons letters and manuscripts from a fire after her death. Foots waited until they were all inside. My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. I was not surprised he had been a good friend of Hurston, but I never found any reference to him in the standard biographies. When I finished rereading The Wide Net I reread Eudora Weltys autobiography, . So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. 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. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. 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. He towered over the others, who were all big and tough. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "The Wide Window" by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 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. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. 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. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. 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. The human drama is my main concern, however, and the one day in the life of William Wallace, wild as it is, is much easier to summarize. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty. 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. Subscribe. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. Downtown black and white mingled and spoke with each other every day. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. They are just playing out a role for the simple joy of pretending, and will soon return to themselves. He loves to pontificate, and spends most of the day talking and giving advice. Life on the Mississippi. 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. 2023
. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Internet, a system architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods of commerce by allowing various computer networks around the world to interconnect. 39These were some of the memories humming in my head when I began reading the books about Southern myth in Chapel Hill. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. 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. 22There is, however, a simpler explanation, of the South to be sure, but leaving the story still uncomplicated by history. Eudora Welty: A Biography. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. They have to go and get the wide net,. I had no memory that Welty had tried to dramatize or imply a single overreaching southern identity, cultural, historical, or otherwise. Print. 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. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. 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 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.. In this respect, my grandfather was a rare exception. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Subscribers can purchase the slipcased edition by signing in to their accounts. Jump-start your essay with our outlining tool to make sure you have all the main points of your essay covered. Delta Wedding in 1946. 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). I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold. Immediately William Wallace looked down, as though he thought of Hazel with the shining eyes, sitting at home and looking straight before her, like a piece of pure gold, too precious to touch (Welty, 176). Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. Hazel is pregnant, and William is baffled by her changing attitude (she would not speak and her eyes glowed). 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. [] Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. 8The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. 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. 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. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. 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. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. There seemed to be a force in the family that drove it to act or speak out, with or without the common consensus. Like my grandfather, Beanie was color blind as far as race was concerned. If all this seems too good to be true, its only because I choose to stop. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. 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. Seeing I was struggling with my bucket and shovel, he came right over and helped show me the right way to do it. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. 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. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. 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. The group that William finally collects is a motley one, all male, but they are of a kind. I saw it 26 years ago and I wish it was on tonight. Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. 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