The Stone Angel | A Feminist Reading of The Stone Angel
In the following essay excerpt, Rooke analyzes The Stone Angel from a feminist perspective, focusing on Hagar's male relationship.
"We judge her less harshly than we might because we acknowledge the power of those forces which have worked against her. At the same time, we admire Hagar's pride precisely because it is a form (however twisted) of resistance to those forces—a statement, in fact, that Hagar Shipley is her own woman."
The Stone Angel is a carefully organized novel which operates on two obvious levels: the present time of the novel which takes us through Hagar's last days on earth, and the past time of memory which moves us in strict chronological order through the major events of her...
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