This shows us perhaps what the father actually thought of the woman who was her wife, and seems to be a symbol of such. She seems to be more of an ornament to him, someone who will look good on his arm, rather then someone who he lives without out of love for her person. Just as those who cared not at all about her carved the stone angel in a distant place, so does this woman seem to have existed with a man who seems not to have cared much about her. Through this description of the stone angel, we are able to see what the
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