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... ” (Laurence, 1988, 294) In the novel The Stone Angel, author Margaret Laurence portrays a lonely old woman by the name of Hagar. ... Her heart seems to be made of stone, much like the stone angel that her father had imported from Italy for her mother’s grave. ... It was only after the death of her favorite son, John, that she finally realized that she was “transformed to stone. ... (Laurence, 1988, 160)
A major emotion that is shown in The Stone Angel is pride. ... He brings over the Stone Angel from Italy more to show his power than to remember his dead wife, as it was the first one in the area. ... This is another way that Hagar relates to the Stone Angel, in the way that her father’s pride is what brought the Stone Angel to be in the first place, and that Hagar has inherited this trait. ... This is another way that she and the Stone Angel are related. The angel was created without eyes, which Hagar always thought to be strange. ... She was doubly blind, not only stone but unendowed with even a pretense of sight.
Approximate Word count = 1601
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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