Figurative Language In A Wagner Matinee

Everyone has dreams. Everyone has goals they want to reach, but how does it feel to sacrifice them for someone else to reach theirs? Willa Carter’s “A Wagner Matinee” is a fictional story of Aunt Georgiana who grew up in Boston as a great pianist. She had big dreams, but after she found the love of her life, she gave up on her dreams and followed him to a small village to Nebraska. 30 years later she returns to Boston and after she had already forgot them, all her dreams and memories starts to wake up. In this text, the author uses figurative language and telling readers about georgiana’s history to establish the theme that people sacrifice their dreams for reaching someone else’s dreams. Once Georgiana was young, her own dreams did not

It is hard for her to go back where she has been so far away from for so long that “she seemed not to realize that she was in the city where she had spent her youth, the place longed hungrily half a lifetime” ( Carter 546 ). She has been away for so long that all the things that happened, now feels like they never really happened. Anyhow, she never talked about her passions to Clark, but he always knew that she gave up something so big that it was too painful for her to talk about. Now that she is back Clark decided take her to see A Wagner Matinee orchestra even though he “ felt some trepidation least she might become aware of her attire, or might experience some painful embarrassments at stepping to the world she had been dead for a quarter of century” ( Carter 546 ). He is scared that all the memories might be too overwhelming for her. Although, the memories and the talent as a pianist she used to have, have not faded away when during the performance “her fingers worked mechanically, as though, they were recalling the piano score they had once played” ( Carter 549). For thirty years she was trying to forget about that piano career that she was making in the conservatorio, but still after the thirty years she remembered perfectly how the piano score for the song the orchestra was playing