‘The Wagner Matinee’ by Willa Cather: Short Story Analysis ‘The Wagner Matinee’ is a realistic Victorian or Romantic Period short story penned in 1904 by American writer Willa Cather. Willa Cather is a greatly respected American writer. She usually wrote short stories describing the Prairies or the Great Plains' frontier life during the latter half of the nineteenth … [Read more...] about ‘The Wagner Matinee’ by Willa Cather: Short Story Analysis