Title: Stone Angel Character Analysis Category:Literature / English Details: Words: 573 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Stone Angel Character Analysis
The Stone Angel :Character Analysis of Hagar Shipley
The story centers around ninety year old Hagar Shipley, an aging woman living with her eldest and least love son and his wife. Margaret Laurence skilfully reveals Hagar’s past through a series of flashbacks and the reader is taken on a tour of this woman’s life as she struggles with her present failing condition and her anger and resentments about the past.
We learn that Hagar inherited many of her harsh qualities from her strong, …showed first 85 words of 573 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 573 total…brought on by her age. Hagar has always prided herself on being independent and self-sufficient, and in these last days of her life, she realizes what a price she has paid over the years.
The main burden of the novel is the change which comes to Hagar as a person. At the end her hardness melts and her egocentrism softens, in this way establishing a redemptive pattern for the novel. In the final analysis there is a sense of pathos in our attitudes towards her.
