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CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF HAGAR SHIPLEY In Margaret Laurence’s novel, The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley is the main character. Born the daughter of Jason Currie, she is one who possesses incredible depth in character. Mingling past and present, we observe the very qualities, which sustained her and deprived her of joy suc ....

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.... During Marvin’s childhood, she would impatiently dismiss him due to his slowness of speech. Once when an ecstatic Marvin told Hagar that he finished his chores, Hagar bluntly sends him away saying, “I can see you’ve finished. I’ve got eyes. Get along now … (Laurence 112)”. Even as a child she was lacked emotion when she could not provide comfort to her dying brother, Daniel. Daniel needed the comfort of his mother, but for Hagar, “to play at being her – it ....