Part 1 of Essay
The lees in wine are the dregs and sediment at the bottom, the part that nobody drinks. In Laurence's The Stone Angel, Murray F. Lees is an insurance salesman, who admits that those in his profession are considered the dregs of society. Despite being the kind of person Hagar Shipley would normally have dismissed as boring ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... his role in Hagar's redemption with herself. Like Hagar, Lees has no actual faith in religion, and says that "I kind of mislaid it and when I went to look for it, it wasn't there". Lees' religion was the cause of his greatest loss, when his son died in a house fire while Murray and Lou Lees were at the Tabernacle. This loss created a permanent distrust in religion for Murray Lees, something Hagar also has. The loss of a child reminds Hagar of the loss of her son, John, which allows her to trust Lees' opinion o ....