Hagar is good at studies, and Jason is pleased by that. He is of the opinion that if one does well in studies, he or she can get anywhere in the world. Apart from Hagar, he has two sons – Dan and Matt. She is the daughter of Jason Currie, a store owner. Hagar Shipley is the narrator of the story who discloses her past in the chronological order. Such a strict father is portrayed in The Stone Angel. But if a father overdoes it he creates havoc in the lives of his own children. Strictness and discipline are essential things in the nurturing of children. Margaret Laurence in her novel The Stone Angel, one of the five works set in the Canadian prairie town of Manawaka, presents the life of Hagar Shipley, a ninety year old woman, whose life seems to be completely governed by her own stubbornness, the cause of which being her own father’s proud and strict attitude towards his children.
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