![]() As a 90-year-old woman, Hagar goes on an expected adventure into the woods alone. ![]() Later in life, her elder son Martin is shown to have been the good and loyal son all along, despite the lack of his mother's favour. ![]() When John dies, Hagar does not cry, and at that point, she turns into a "Stone Angel". However, he ultimately returns to his father. After Hagar separates from her husband, John comes with her. She shows favoritism towards her younger son, John. As a young woman she marries against her father's wishes, severing the family ties. As a young girl she refuses to rock her dying brother in the garments of their mother. ![]() The themes of pride and the prejudice that comes from social class recur in the novel. In a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman struggling to come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss. ![]()
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