Hagar’s overwhelming pride was the reason she could not show love nor affection to those around her. Her stubbornness caused her marriage to dissolve, Marvin to be unhappy, her daughter-in-law’s frustration, and her own death. It also led to the death of her son John. Her excessive pride destroyed her relationships with her father, brother and husband. Hagar’s pride and stubbornness were the causes of her failed relationships and lack of love in her life.
“Pride was my wilderness and the demon that led me there was fear… never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.” (Laurence, 292).
In Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, the main character Hagar Shipley refused to compromise which shaped the outcome of her life as well as the lives of those around her.
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