Summary Of A Wagner Matinee By Willa Cather

Willa Cather was the author of this short story named “A Wagner Matinee” she was born in Winchester, Virginia. Some year later the family moved to Nebraska and live in a ranch, soon she was bored about this and moved to the town for then moving again to Lincoln for her studies. This part of her life is a resemblance to the short story she wrote because meanly of she living in Nebraska and moving to the town because of the dullness of the plains as shown in the short story but in the other way around that Georgiana was in the city and went to her husband farm in Nebraska and lost all her interest in all the things she loved.

Before Georgiana moving to Nebraska she was a music teacher at the Boston Conservatory. As Clark said about Georgiana before she left she was angular, spectacled women at the age of thirty, that fell in love with a handsome country boy. He proposed to go to where he lived in Nebraska and all her family said no, but even when everyone said to not go she went. After a while being there it became dull, only working all the time in the farm and there was no music and that’s what she loved. When she came back to Boston and Clark saw her he said that she was grotesque and pathetic, that she was wearing a day coach and a black bonnet that where both …show more content…
Before she went to Nebraska she was a music teacher and when she came back to Boston her feelings for the music were still there. It is most clearly shown when the music started playing and she kept completely silent to hear it or gasp at the beginning at astonishment. The moment when it shows really her feelings for music was when the “The Flying Dutchman” started playing and her finger moved like she was playing the piano, or when another piece of music started playing and she cried. Also at the end when she said she didn’t wanted to leave because she didn’t want to go back to a place where they didn't have such beautiful thing called