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Analysis Of The Wagner Matinee

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In the same vein, Aunt Georgiana’s characterization as a cold, glassy woman living in a world defined by boundaries strengthens the theme. Like an ice-skater in a snow globe, elegantly performing pirouettes with enough grace to distract from the unrelenting monotony until her globe’s key must be wound up again, Georgiana buries her feelings in routine. When Georgiana hears the music from the Wagner Matinee, it stirs her from her incapacitation and roused by this orchestral alarm her stretched, misshapen hands snap back into the form of a pianists. Georgina’s characterization is essential to her rise into lucidity during the climax because of the stark difference between the robotic Georgiana still lost in Nebraska’s haze and the pianist who
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