The Stone Angel
By DelMio Editor
March 11th, 2008 | Leave a comment
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence is the story of Hagar Shipley told in flashbacks.Hagar Shipley was a mean woman, but yet I felt sorry for her because she wasn’t a bad woman. The daughter of a successful businessman in a small Canadian prairie town, Hagar was raised with a certain class-concsiousness. So it is rather surprising when she falls in love with Bram, a good-looking, shiftless, hard-drinking farmer who definitely does not belong to her class. Perhaps because he has the allure of the bad boy, exuding danger and sex, she is determined to marry him even though it means being disowned by her family.Margaret Laurence tells a good story. Not once did she intrude or write a wrong word. Hagar is so truly written I am able to recognize in her bits of people I know and have known. This, to me, is a sign of a good writer; she has taken the heart of a stone angel and given it life.
Written by Stefanie H
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