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Stone Angel by: Margaret Laurence. Chapter 1 Notes. Plot 1-(90 year old Hagar- 2-3 weeks). Hagar, flaunting smoking - she had cared too long what others thought.
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Stone Angelby: Margaret Laurence Chapter 1 Notes
Plot 1-(90 year old Hagar- 2-3 weeks) • Hagar, flaunting smoking - she had cared too long what others thought. • Marvin, legal power of attorney, her son whom she lives with, and Doris (daughter-in-law), want to sell the house and move to an apartment. Hagar disapproves. Marvin, who has taken over her business affairs, hates confrontation and leaves the conversation. • Doris suggest that Hagar meet with Mr. Troy, the priest.
Plot 2 – Young hagar living on the prairies – late 1800’s) • Did she feel responsible? Was she to blame? Did her father blame her? • Young hagar remembers the stone angel - pure, white, marble, costly, imported from Italy, in memory of her mother who died at hagar’s birth. (No eyes on the statue) • hagar feels pressure from Auntie Doll to live “up to” the past. She lives in a new brick house. • Father - Jason Currie , brothers - Matt and Dan. • Proud family- self-made man - pulled up by the bootstraps. • Father appeared disappointed in the boys who tried, but couldn’t please him. • hagar appeared to most resemble her father’s strength; she refused to cry when he beat her with a ruler.
Plot 2 • hagar’s friends were: Chrolette Tappen - doctor’s daughter • Lottie Drieser - Lottie No-Name • Telford Simmons - undertaker’s son • Mr. Currie never remarried - the housekeeper wanted to marry him, but hagar knew that he wouldn’t due to status. • hagar sees her father with Lottie Drieser’s mother, who refuses his advances, thus making him angry. Soon after she dies and he responds: • 1. expresses sympathy to her troubled life. • 2. declared that her sort wasn’t much of a loss. • 3. startled at the thought that she had died of consumption (contagious).
Plot 2 • Matt - skinny, wore glasses, hard worker • Daniel - delicate, avoided work • - died of pneumonia • hagar couldn’t help Matt nurse Daniel on his death bed, just as she couldn’t kill chickens at the town dump to spare their misery, but Lottie could.