An Analysis Of Aunt Georgian's 'Leaving The Music Behind For Love'

Leaving the Music Behind for Love When people think they are in love, they act upon it quickly. They rush into marriage as soon as possible because they think they will lose that special person. Marriage is a huge commitment and the decision of rushing into marriage, like Aunt Georgiana, may have consequences. Aunt Georgiana regrets her decision, especially losing the music she loves so much. Aunt Georgiana is thirty years old when she elopes with Howard Carpenter, who is twenty-one. She is visiting a little village in the Green Mountains when she meets him. Since she is already thirty years old, she decides to go with her instinct and marries him thinking that she would not find anyone else to love her back. She does not worry about what her family would think of her or the criticisms she would receive from her friends when she elopes with Howard and moves to the Nebraska Frontier.
Since Aunt Georgiana elopes, she has left the environment of a big city like Boston. Instead of living in a house of Aunt Georgiana’s choice, …show more content…
When she goes back to visit Boston to attend the settling of an estate, Aunt Georgiana realizes she misses the city a lot. Her nephew, Clark, invites her to a Wagner programme the day she arrives. As the musicians play, Clark can tell how much of an effect hearing them play have on Aunt Georgiana. As “The Flying Dutchman” begins playing, Clark sees Aunt Georgiana’s fingers playing a piano on her black dress. As the Wagner programme ends, Aunt Georgiana is in tears. The crowd is up and leaving, as she sits there in her seat crying. She does not want to go back home to Nebraska, to a life with no music in it. She warns Clark by saying “Don’t love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you” (112). She misses her old life in which she was a music teacher in love with music, now she is living in a homestead and having to take care of a bunch of land without music at