The Stone Angel: Hagar Shipley
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In Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, the main character Hagar
Shipley refused to compromise which shaped the outcome of her life as well
as the lives of those around her. "Pride was my wilderness and the demon
that led me there was fear... [I was] never free, for I carried my chains
within me, ....
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.... weaknesses. Her father made aware that she
had "backbone" (p.10) and that "she took after him" (p.10). The first sigh
of Hagar's excessive pride was shown when her father scolded her for
telling a customer that there were bugs in the barrel of raisins. She
refused to cry before and after the punishment: "I wouldn't let him see me
cry, I was so enraged" (p.9). She continued to build a wall around herself
to hide her emotions. Her pride interfered with many relationships in her
life. When h ....
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