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CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF HAGAR SHIPLEY
In Margaret Laurence’s novel, The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley is the main character. Born the daughter of Jason Currie, she is one who possesses incredible depth in character. Mingling past and present, we observe the very qualities, which sustained her and deprived her o ....
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.... in feeling or expressing emotion was a visible characteristic throughout the novel.
As a result of her upbringing, Hagar possesses pride that despises weakness in any form. As a young girl she displayed this trait when her dad slapped her hand, “I wouldn’t let him see me cry, I was so enraged (Laurence 9).” As previously mentioned before, Hagar could not portray her mother to comfort her dying brother. She characterized her mother as “the woman Dan was said to resemble so much and from whom he’d inherited a frailty I could not help but detest (Laur ....
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