“A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather is a short story about Clark and his aunt Georgiana who is in Boston to visit, she used to be a piano teacher however, after married with Howard she moved to a farm in Red Willow County, Clark describes them as “one of those cave dwellings whose inmates so often reverted to primitive conditions”, they have a lagoon from where they take out the water to drink. Clark decided to take her to a Wagner Matinee, and orchestra concert and she is enchanted because she has been apart from the music for a very long time, at the end of the concert Aunt Georgiana starts crying and say, “I don’t want to go!” because she know that she must leave music behind and return to the silent fields and routine chores of her Nebraska farm, outside of the concert is waiting for her the black pond, the weathered house and not much beauty. The answer is A.
