The Stone Angel

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What are Hagars acomplishements and dreams in the Stone Angel?
What did she get out of life, and what did she want?
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Hi

What are Hagars acomplishements and dreams in the Stone Angel?
What did she get out of life, and what did she want?
These should contain material and spiritual things

Cheers

Liam

In Canadian Margaret Laurence's Stone Angel, the protagonist Hagar has accepted a self as domesticator of men, given her by the patriarchal community; Laurence depicts Hagar's unconscious search for a genuinely feminine self as an "extended food odyssey" (Schofield, "Culinary" 87). Hagar ultimately gives up men's meals of cooked meat for a lighter raw diet of women's fare (Levi-Straussian), thus disencumbering herself of male ideology.

Article Title: Mimesis and Metaphor: Food Imagery in International Twentieth-Century Women's Writing. Contributors: Harriet Blodgett - author. Journal Title: Papers on Language & Literature. Volume: 40. Issue: 3. Publication Year: 2004. Page Number: 260

Only in her last hours, when Hagar comes to realize something of the emotional desert her life has been, does she see Marvin for who he is--a loving, caring, responsible child begging for a blessing from a parent who has always ignored him. With this insight, Hagar blesses him, saying, "You've been good to me, always" (304); and she deliberately and caringly lies to him by adding that he has been "a better son than John" (304), her favorite son. Thus, Hagar lifts from Marvin his sense of weakness and worthlessness, and he believes her. Who would tell a lie on her deathbed? A son whose impoverished personality--with its neurotic dependency--has struggled responsibly throughout a lifetime of hard work and little joy, Marvin is one of the luckier children in Laurence: he has had limited joy with his wife, Doris, and their children, Tina and Steven, and he receives his mother's blessing and release when she is ninety and he is in his sixties.

Book Title: New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism. Contributors: Greta M. Coger - editor. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: 158