Aunt Clara's Effect On Aunt Georgiana

While the atmospheres of the homestead and the concert hall in Boston both affected Aunt Georgiana intensely, the homestead is dull, monotonous, and harsh while the Boston concert hall is dazzling, riveting, and enthralling. The homestead is described as extremely isolated; Aunt Georgiana "had not been further than fifty miles from the homestead" for thirty years. She had to do extensive work from sunrise to sundown to keep the homestead in order; this caused her to have stooped shoulders and a "sunken chest." On the homestead Aunt Georgiana did not hear any music aside from the choir at her local church. At the concert hall in Boston, the sparkling lights on the ceiling and the captivating instruments in the orchestra exemplify a more affluent lifestyle in contrast to the arduous labor in the west. Aunt Georgiana is not

In Clark 's flashback, he was looking through her old music books when she put her hands over his eyes and tells him to not "love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you. Oh! dear boy, pray that whatever sacrifice may be, it be not that." This shows how attached she was to music and how she wholeheartedly never wanted to part from it by the way she tells Clark that it is unwise to love something so much. When Clark takes her to the Wagner matinée, she is at first passive, but then tender-hearted. During the second half of the show she "wept quietly, but almost continuously, as a shallow vessel overflows in a rainstorm." She would look up at the lights on the ceiling from time to time, and it seemed as though she never wanted to forget the experience. When the concert was over, Clark prompted her to leave and she "burst into tears" while pleading, "I don 't want to go, Clark, I don 't want to go!" This illustrates Aunt Georgiana 's vulnerability after listening to a concert after thirty years. Overall, Aunt Georgiana appears to be passionate, sentimental, and vulnerable due to her