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Hagar Shipley is a difficult woman to like but that doesn?t make her any less admirable. Hagar is a unique, proud, stubborn, querulous, self-reliant, and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.
As her story unfolds, we are drawn into her past. We meet Hagar as a young girl growing up in a black prairie town of Manawaka; as the wife of a virile but unsuccessful farmer with whom her marriage was stormy. As a mother who dominates her younger son John and neglects her older son Marvin; and, finally, as an old woman isolated by an uncompromising pride and by the stern virtues she has inherited from her pioneer ancestors, especially her father. She has always lived her like on her own terms at all costs. Her strength ?her pride is also her weakness. Her pride and independent attitude alienate her from the very people she loves the most. She is caught in a shell that distances her from everyone and from expressing or experiencing love, as a result she turns out to be just as hard and unyielding as the stone angel itself. She never reveals her real feelings at the risk of being thought of as "soft" and as a result she misses out on a lot.
Hagar, at the end of her life doubts whether she felt love or true joy. It is only on her deathbed that she realizes the emptiness of her life. She realizes that it is her older neglected son who truly loves and is loyal to her and does make her peace with herself Marvin and her dead men.
The Stone Angel is vivid, evocative, moving, and celebrates the triumph of the spirit. Hagar Shipley is a difficult woman to like but that doesn?t make her any less admirable. Hagar is a unique, proud, stubborn, querulous, self-reliant, and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.
As her story unfolds, we are drawn into her past. We meet Hagar as a young girl growing up in a black prairie town of Manawaka; as the wife of a virile but unsuccessful farmer with whom her marriage was stormy. As a mother who dominates her younger son John and neglects her older son Marvin; and, finally, as an old woman isolated by an uncompromising pride and by the stern virtues she has inherited from her pioneer ancestors, especially her father. She has always lived her like on her own terms at all costs. Her strength ?her pride is also her weakness. Her pride and independent attitude alienate her from the very people she loves the most. She is caught in a shell that distances her from everyone and from expressing or experiencing love, as a result she turns out to be just as hard and unyielding as the stone angel itself. She never reveals her real feelings at the risk of being thought of as "soft" and as a result she misses out on a lot.
Hagar, at the end of her life doubts whether she felt love or true joy. It is only on her deathbed that she realizes the emptiness of her life. She realizes that it is her older neglected son who truly loves and is loyal to her and does make her peace with herself Marvin and her dead men.
The Stone Angel is vivid, evocative, moving, and celebrates the triumph of the spirit.

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