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by Tim Harrel
Staff Writer
For the third time, Doris Betts, noted
author and director of the freshman English
program at UNC, has been selected to
receive the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for
writing.
The highest prize of its kind in North
Carolina, the award goes to Betts recent
collection of short stories. Beasts of the
Southern Wild. In an interview last week,
Betts discussed the award and some of the
events that led to her career as a writer,
particularly a writer in the South.
She has mixed feelings about her regional
heritage.
I think there's a lot of things wrongabout
the South, but the South is like my family. I
may criticize it, but 1 don't want anybody
else to. 1 have loved a great deal about the
South that 1 might have missed in another
atmosphere the lov'e of family, tradition,
history seasons, the outdoors and closeness
to the earth. There are lots of priceless things
out of it that I wouldn't trade for anything.
"I enjoy my Southern accent and 1 notice
when 1 travel to New York or Chicago my
accent gets thicker and thicker. I get like
Scarlett O'Hara and 1 don't have to carry a
suitcase anywhere. 1 get so helpless; it's just
pitiful."
Betts said she would not live in the past if
she had the chance.
I think part of what one writes is part of
one's dissatisfaction with the modern world
or whatever world you happen to be in. I'm
sure if I lived in 1865, I'd find a lot wrong
with that one.
"No, I'm not. satisfied with the modern
world at all and I'm not much satisfied with
the writers it has produced. That is, I'm not a
Kurt Vonnegut fan, for example. I've read
1 feel I should teach in that area in order to
know my students better. All of my classes
are small and I like it that way. By the end of
the semester, I have come to know marry of
my students very well I like freshmen. I
know a lot of professors here at the
university do not like to teach freshmen, but
I think they are interesting, fresh,
enthusiastic and not familiar enough with
college life to be cynical about it.
'No, I'm not satisfied with the modern
world at all, and I'm not much satisfied
with the writers it has produced.'
everything he wrote. But I think he's easy
and he's superficial and he is clever. He is so
clever, you can't stand him to keep on being
clever for one more sentence. Because it's a
nuisance. It's a decoration and if you take off
the decoration, there's no cake underneath.
"So many times, I feel I'd rather live in
another century or age. But I don't think any
woman would want to go back and live then.
This is certainly the best age to be a woman
in. I suppose 1 could have borne children in
the back of a wagon crossing the Great
Plains but I'd just as soon not."
Being a teacher, Betts naturally has
student contact. "Being director of the
freshman and sophomore English program.
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"What I like best about my freshman
English students is that I am able to watch
them grow, and that pleases me. They
change so quickly in just one semester. It's an
exciting time for them and it's an exciting
time for me".
What about students who come to her and
say they are failing English because they
can't write? "People like that better watch
what they say. Writing is not simply a
creative gift. It's also a craft and a skill. And I
think everyone can learn to write better than
he wrote before.
"I do think there are people for whom
writing is difficult. But if it's very difficult,
the problem is that thinking is difficult. Try
thinking without words; you can't. That's the
way we are built. So, students ought to be
careful when they say they can't write.
Secretly, they're saying they can't think in
words. If you can think in words, then you
ought to be able to think on paper."
One of Betts most recent works is a short
story that "most males hate to read." "Still
Life With Fruit" was published in January's
issue of Ms. magazine and will appear this
winter in a collection of stories, Bitches and
Sad Ladies.
The story concerns a selfish and somewhat
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immature girl and the experiences she has in
her first childbirth. "I'm saying here that
during childbirth, this immature person
realizes her life is the one that's going to be
changed. She is now responsible for another
life, and in that moment, you lose something;
you lose your freedom. And you gain
something also. You gain responsibility
which is innately very human and very
precious."
Betts said Bitches and Sad Ladies will
probably be used in women's studies courses
"and will reinforce our paranoia, which I
don't consider healthy.
"I really don't see w hat all the shouting's
about. It seems to me that people who
believe the constrictions that are placed
upon them are at fault, that is, if society says
you're a second-class citizen and you believe
it, you're pretty dumb. If society says you're
second-class and you say back, 'Who says
soT, then you're as liberated as you're ever
going to be.
"But it seems to me, if somebody has to say
it for you, if you have to join a club to say it,
or take a course to say it, then the liberation,
in and of itself, is just letting somebody new
tell you what you are.
"1 have not really been mistreated by men.
In fact, most of the opportunities that have
mattered have come from men. If I have been
oppressed, it doesn't seem to have done
much damage. That's why 1 say I probably
sound to the movement like an Aunt
Jemima. I'm not that angry at men.
"I think that men in America are at least as
oppressed as women, by women, by the
necessity to work, by the same pressure
against dreams that women have.
"I never occurred to me when 1 was young
that life was fair and it hasn't been. It's not
lair; it's not fair to men or women. What is so
amazing is that so many men and women
manage in spite of that to be intelligent and
kind and responsible human beings. That's
what is worthwhile."
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