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In "A Wagner Matinee," what characteristics of the Nebraska frontier does Willa Cather emphasize?

a. success and wealth
b. hardship and sacrifice
c. music and landscape
d. culture and high society

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In "A Wagner Matinee", Willa Cather emphasizes the (B) hardship and sacrifice as associated with the Nebraska frontier.

It shows that when Clark, a Bostonian takes his aunt to a Wagner symphony concert. At the end of it, the aunt starts crying and saying "I don't want to go, Clark. I don't want to go".

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