everything
             she needed to know to help her father at his store. However, upon her return, she found
             herself tending to the house instead.
             As a means of revenge toward her father, Hagar's personal pride leads her to marry
             Bram Shipley, an act specifically forbade by her father. Hagar did not want to be told
             whom to marry. Feeling a new sense of freedom, she moved in with her new husband and
             quickly they gave birth to two sons, Marvin and John.
             Even in her later years, Hagar refuses to show any signs of weakness and tries to
             do everything by herself. In the end, however, Marvin and Doris help to take care of her.
             Throughout her life, Hagar refuses to relinquish her sense of personal pride and it
             eventually becomes a kind of trap or punishment.
             The Mariner and Hagar both suffered from the crime of excessive pride and they
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