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This 4 page paper discusses the character of Hagar in Margaret Laurence’s novel “The Stone Angel.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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what she got out of life, and whether she achieved anything of value or accomplished anything worthwhile. Discussion Hagar Shipley is the narrator and protagonist of the novel, which presents
readers with a problem from the beginning: how much of what she says can we trust? We have no independent verification that would allow us to judge her veracity. However,
her story as she tells it is so bleak and uncompromising that its reasonable to assume that its close to the truth. Its hard to believe anyone would make up
anything this unflattering about themselves. Critics have found Hagar both inspiring and depressing, and many have labeled her disturbing, because her life has not been a happy one. Now, at
the age of 90 and dying, she looks back on what might be considered a life that was completely wasted. Her besetting sin, the thing that keeps her from truly
living, is her stiff-necked pride, pride she got from her father. He is every bit as hard as she is, and tells her and her brothers repeatedly about being a
self-made man. He also makes it clear that the children will never measure up to his expectations of them. When she goes into his store, shed find him behind the
counter, "bulky and waistcoated, his voice with its Scots burr prompting me when I forgot, and telling me to concentrate or Id never learn. Do you want to grow up
to be a dummy, a daft loon? No. Then concentrate" (Laurence, 1964, p. 7). When she learned what he was teaching her, he always said the same thing: "Hayroot, strawfoot
/ Now youve got it" (Laurence, 1964, p. 7). That was his unvarying formula, no matter how difficult a task she finished. She says that he was a man of
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