Today's Discussion Leader: Brian!
The story we are reading today was first published in 1904. In "A Wagner Matinee," the narrator, a young Bostonian named Clark, is notified that his aunt is coming to visit from Nebraska. Clark tells us that his aunt Georgiana once lived in Boston herself, long before Clark’s birth; in her youth she was a music teacher, but she married a farmer and has had a difficult life. The narrator brings his aunt to a concert where she reacts differently than most of the other patrons. When the concert ends, the other members of the audience applaud, murmur appreciatively, start to leave; the musicians rise from their seats, tapping the spit out of their woodwinds and brasses, putting their instruments into cases or slipjackets. Aunt Georgiana, however, does not move. Still sobbing, she tells Clark, "I don't want to go, Clark, I don't want to go!" It isn’t merely that she doesn’t want to leave the concert hall; she doesn’t want to return to a gray and ugly world, where music has no part.
Click here for a link to the story on Wikipedia!
Click here for a general link on Willa Cather! (again, a Wikipedia source!)
I will be curious to know what you all think about this story! How does it connect back to anything else that we have read?!
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