Early in the 1900s, women were thought to stay home, to clean and take care of the children, to be domestic. "A Wagner Matinee," by Willa Cather and "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, are both stories about women who feel trapped by their husbands and are taken from their lives.

In "A Wagner Matinee" the woman, Aunt Georgiana, has come to Boston to receive a small legacy from a relative of hers that has just passed away. She stays with her nephew while in Boston. Her nephew, Clark wants to pay her back for all the years she had taken care of him. Clark takes her to a concert, like the ones that she had gone to when she was a little girl. Although Georgiana had grown up in the city, she had not gone more than 50 miles away from her home in the country for 30 years. The reason for this is because she eloped and after their marriage her husband took her away from the city and away from her family and friends, and moved to the country. After the concert is......

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Title: Home Away For Home
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Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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