The time of the Wagner Matinee story was an extraordinary time in history. The world was being discovered and the industry had just come to the fore. The new industry has made life easier for people living in very compact areas, such as the East Coast of the United States. They had privileges like trains, electricity and many other honors. These were shown through the speaker's benefits in Boston. However, in areas where the population was sparse, settlers did not enjoy all the advantages that people in already settled places had. This was hard on the people who inhabited the isolated plains; especially if they were already adapted to the industrial lifestyle. In Wagner Matinee the speaker's aunt was born and raised in Boston, she was also influenced by music in every way possible. He played the piano, listened to famous composers and even traveled to Paris for the privilege of hearing an opera. It was a great surprise to her wealthy family to receive the news that she had fled to live in the new frontier of Nebraska with a young man. Cather wrote this text to identify how the people of the western frontier had strength and endurance, her examples were the physical endurance of the West, the isolation from the new age, and the enduring silence that the pioneers had dealt with in their time. It has never been an easy job to colonize a new land and explore it, and it certainly never will be. Even in the era of the Wagner Matinee text, it was still extremely difficult to work with the new land the United States was settling. It's the land, the time, and the journey is all unexpected, so there's really no way to properly approach the new land. The… medium of paper… seems barbaric to the sophisticated people of Boston. However, this was not Willa Cather's intent, she only intended to glorify the strength and endurance needed to be a pioneer. He had written this text to bring to the attention of the cities the true nobility of the frontier people. The nephew in this story, also the speaker of this text, had exposed the harsh world of being a pioneer and respected his aunt much more because of her perseverance in remaining in the isolated world. The really depressing part of the story was the end, when the music ended, Aunt Georgiana begged her nephew that she didn't want to go back to the West. His grandson understood why he had experienced the harsh environment of that unstable land. Cather's main theme in this writing was to praise the pioneers who had settled the land of America for the people of the future..