No one thinks about how we got here. About what our ancestors had to endure and how the chances of us being here get slimmer and slimmer the more you think about it. Everyone in your family tree has helped shape who you are and the person you will become. Our family seems to determine who we are going to be in life and always seems to find a way to get there. In the story A Wagner Matinee, there is a man, Clark, who lives in Boston and receives news from his aunt Georgiana who is visiting him from Nebraska to settle an estate. When his aunt, Georgiana, was younger, she had been a very talented music teacher and it was she who introduced him to Shakespeare, the music she played on her small living room organ, and classical mythology. When she left, she had to give up music and it was something she despised. “It never really dies, so the soul? It withers only to the external eye. Georgiana then met a man and they moved to Nebraska and he lost contact with her. One day he heard she was coming back and Clark decided to take her to a concert because she hadn't been into music for so long and she had forgotten how much she loved music. In the story A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather, you realize the hardships many people endured on the frontier, and then how the people of Boston lived more promising lives. Where you grow up will always affect your perception of the rest of the world and this seems to happen to the main character, Clark, in Willa Cather's story, A Wagner Matinee. Clark explains Nebraska as a dark memory with a monotonous landscape. “The world over there is the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield which extended until daybreak; to the west, a corral that stretched until sunset; between the two, the sordid conquests of peace, more merciless than those of war. He never seems to mention anything brilliant. In your mind, all you can think about are harsh, dark colors that make you realize how life in Nebraska was not the same as life in Boston..