In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to
             understanding herself and her life. Hagar is the narrator of the book.
             She is ninety, and is trying to avoid an old aged home where her son
             Marvin, and Marvin's wife Doris want to put her. During this her attempt
             to move to Shadow Point and live alone, Hagar remembers the many parts
             of her life and her life story is revealed to the reader in that
             fashion. Hagar grew up in Manawaka, in the prairies. Hagar's mother died
             while giving birth to her, and her father Jason Currie had a great stone
             angel brought from Italy at a great expense for Mrs. Currie's grave.
             Hagar had two brothers, Matt and Daniel. Daniel was a lazy boy, and was
             very delicate physically. Daniel died at eighteen of pneumonia. Matt
             intended to go to university, but Hagar was sent by her father. Matt
             married, but never had children, and died of disease without putting up
             a fight in his death bed. Hagar eventually goes to university and
             returns to marry Brampton Shiptley, against her fathers' will. At that
             point she loses contact with her father. Hagar eventually regrets
             marrying Bram, who often embarrasses her. Hagar and Bram have two boys,
             Marvin and John. Hagar never really loves Marvin, and when he moves out,
             she moves out with John. She loves him, and does everything for him.
             They eventually return to Manawaka when Brampton is dying. At that
             point John is in love with Arlene, something Hagar does not understand
             nor approve of. John tragically dies while performing a stunt while
             drunk. Hagar moves to the coast, buys a house, and ends up living her
             last days with Marvin and his wife Doris. Shortly before her death Hagar
             realizes many things about herself. First of all that her heart is made
             of stone, secondly that she has a lot of pride like her father, and
             thirdly that she is blind, or in other words she can only see things
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