The Stone Angel
In Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, she portrays Hagar Shipley, a woman near death who regrets the choices of her past. Hagar has many aspirations and ideas about how she wants her life to end up, but her unbending pride does not let that happen. Hagar fails to accomplish her goals. Her failure is seen in her search to make something of herself, to have healthy relationships, and to die in peace. The first instance in which we see Hagar’s failure is in her quest to make something of herself. It all started when her father wanted her to go to school because “there’s no woman here to teach you how to dress and behave like a lady.”(42) At first Hagar did not want to go to school but her father convinced her to go. It ended up being a good thing for Hagar because it made her realize that she wanted to become a teacher. Her father was pleased with what she had become, “It was worth every penny for the two years.”(43) Her father said, “You’re a credit to me”(43), when he told her that she was going to keep his accounts. She expressed to him “I want to teach”(43). But he did not want his daughter to work in a “one-room school,” he wanted her to stay. “I did not go out teaching. I stayed and kept my father’s accounts, p
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Approximate Word count = 1387
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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