For Hagar Shipley, a woman with great independence and dignity, living in a world of appearances was an intrinsic routine she endured everyday. Revealing emotion to others, even to her own father, was something she sometimes wanted to do; but, she just was not capable of doing so. The values instilled upon her when she was a child were those of appearing strong and independent at all times, believing wholeheartedly that s

Hagar's marriage to Bram was an utter failure, even from the very beginning and should have never taken place at all. With Hagar already acting as if she is trying to put on a show for everyone, having to constantly correct Bram's use of the English language simply worsened her state since she was only hurting her own pride when she did this. On their wedding night Bram gave Hagar a vase and said, "This here's for you, Hagar," (Pg. 51) while most people would have been overwhelmed with emotions from the kind offering, that they would not cared how he said it, but Hagar is too focussed on Bram's grammatical errors that she just sets the vase aside and "..thought no more about it." (Pg. 51) However, if Hagar would have listened to her father and married a man with a higher sense of decency and conveyed the same amount of pride as Hagar, she could have helped her own situation by giving herself someone which she could open up to and relate to. Ever since birth Hagar has had nobody there for her. Her mother dying when she was

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)