A Report On: Laurence's The Stone Angel
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The lees in wine are the dregs and sediment at the bottom, the part
that nobody drinks. In Laurence's The Stone Angel, Murray F. Lees is an
insurance salesman, who admits that those in his profession are considered
the dregs of society. Despite being the kind of person Hagar Shipley would
normally ....
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.... representative
of his role in Hagar's redemption with herself. Like Hagar, Lees has no
actual faith in religion, and says that "I kind of mislaid it and when I
went to look for it, it wasn't there". Lees' religion was the cause of his
greatest loss, when his son died in a house fire while Murray and Lou Lees
were at the Tabernacle. This loss created a permanent distrust in religion
for Murray Lees, something Hagar also has. The loss of a child reminds
Hagar of the loss of her son, John, which ....
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