The second is the date of 176). I would agree, and I did try to explore its implications as I reworked my way through the story. Word Count: 385. 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. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. 42Myth 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. 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. The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. New York: Signet Classics, 1961. 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. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. 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. I learned my grandfather had been instrumental in having him named the first black deputy in the county. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. 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. Einstein activity capture is a powerful productivity-boosting tool that is integrated with Salesforce. The Wide Net and Other Stories. Now a host of biblical allusions begin to prevail over the Greek and Roman. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. Failed rebellions are choice makers of myths, as another failed rebellion was to prove a century later. She is one of Hazels cousins. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. In fact, it is not a baptism at all. 184). But the real proof of his character came at noon, when we all stopped to have lunch. 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. 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. eNotes.com, Inc. 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. Eudora Welty could use myth otherwise, as she does in such works as her masterpiece. See production, box office & company info. Sunlight was scarce and each turn of the river took one deeper into a ripe darkness smelling of frog spawn and wild magnolia. 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. 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. Delta Wedding in 1946. He has coedited (with Patrick Samway) four anthologies of Southern literature: Stories of the Modern South (Penguin), Stories of the Old South (Penguin), A Modern Southern Reader (Peachtree) and A New Reader of the Old South (Peachtree). When we went to the movies on Saturday night, we would never hesitate to stop outside the county jail across the street from the Sunrise Theater. 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. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about . The shifting from one realm to another is a constant possibility. 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. 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. After all, for William it is only October and the baby will not be born until April (fall and rebirth go hand in hand in this story). As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. Even the trees have bones that crack when lightning strikes. She claims that she was hiding when he read her letter, and he spanks her, insisting that she say she'll never do it again. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. 7William 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. 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 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. Aeneas needs the golden bough to allow him to safely travel through the underworld to find his father. Remember that (Welty. 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 . When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the. 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. 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. 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 . The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. 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. eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. 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. The second date is today's Since in the South, as I had finally learned in Chapel Hill, history tends to breed myth as a kind of natural law, I needed at least to consider the question. 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. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? Ben Forkner, Converging Toward the Human: Myth and Theory in "The Wide Net" (and me),Journal of the Short Story in English [En ligne], 67|Autumn 2016, mis en ligne le 01 dcembre 2018, consult le 02 mars 2023. It did not cost much to have a horse and a small motor boat. His grandfather had been branded by the devil in a storm, Lightn. 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. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 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. He is more at ease with the helpless wild creature of the woods than with Hazel at home. Orlando: A Harvest Book, 2006. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. The thing about this part of the country in the great days is that people like Aaron Burr, J.J. Audubon, Lorenzo Dow, and goodness knows who, were as thick as blackbirds in the pie, and once the pie is opened, they are going to begin to sing (qtd. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Plot Summary submission guide. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty, Collected Stories 183).1 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. in Marrs 103). 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