Hagar as a Holy Terror, "The Stone Angel" by Margaret Laurence

Hagar is a "holy Terror" But does she also arouse pity, Hagar seems to try to avoid pity right throughout the novel, as she believes that a proud woman is not pitied. Although she does like to be pitied, she does not like to shed tears, however she almost cries on a bus when a young teenage girl gets up and gives Hagar her seat, "I scarcely nod my thanks, fearing she'll see my unseemly …

…he deserved, just as King Lear denied Cordelia the love that she deserved. As well as both characters isolate themselves from the real world once they realize their mistakes, they both end up lonely, and in the end the child that they had cast aside is the child that they confess their fear too. "The Stone Ange"l truly is a tragedy as Hagar loses the ones the loves, and cannot even mourn their deaths.