The Wide Net (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Dover, Mississippi, on the Natchez Trace
- Principal Characters: William Wallace Jamieson, Hazel Jamieson, Virgil Thomas
- Genres: Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery
- Locales: Natchez Trace, MS
The Story
As the vernal equinox approaches, Hazel Jamieson, three months pregnant, refuses sexual relations with her husband, William Wallace Jamieson. Mystified and hurt by this rejection, William Wallace spends a night out, drinking with his bachelor friend Virgil Thomas. On returning home in the morning, he finds a note from Hazel announcing that she will not put up with him any longer and has drowned herself in the Pearl River. William Wallace and Virgil then organize a party to drag the river for her, using the wide net that belongs to the local patriarch, Old Doc. The...
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