The Stone Angel: Chapter 2

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The Stone Angel Chapter 2
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Plot 1 Summary

• Hagar reluctantly entertains Mr. Troy.
• She feels ill - suffers from constipation
• after he leaves, she realizes the purpose of the
  trip - to convince her to go to a nursing home
• She then makes a decision to never go to a home
• Hagar and Doris both quarrel about the home.
  Marvin changes the subject- he appears to be
  caught in the middle. Hagar gets upset when
  they suggest that they get a babysitter so
  they can go to a movie.
• Hagar is getting forgetful - left a cigarette
  burning the night before and it fell out of the
  ashtray.
• Marvin tells Hagar that she is getting too much
  work for Doris, too heavy, too many disturbed
  nights. She even wets the bed.

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Plot 1 Continued

• The issue is postponed when Hagar starts to
  cry.
• During the night she finds sleep difficult and
  knocks over a lamp.
• She sees herself in a mirror and sees herself for
  what she is, a sight for sore eyes.
• They had both married for the qualities in each
  other that they now cant bear he for her
  manners and speech, she for his roughness and
  non-caring attitude.
• She considers her relationship with him his
  banner over me was love.

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Plot 2

• hagar goes to a finishing school for 2 years -
  ladies only
• Her father disapproves of her desire to teach -
  beneath her - she can work on his accounts
  instead.
• 3 years later she meets Bram Shipley - rough,
  coarse, and according to Lottie as common as
  dirt.
• Matt has married Mavis McVitie and the house was
  given to them.
• hagar married Bram, but neither Matt nor her
  father would attend the wedding. She believed
  that they would change their view when he became
  a prosperous gentleman.

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Plot 2 - Continued

• Bram then initiated her into the sexual world.
  The next day she scrubbed for the first time.
• Matt dies and even then her father doesnt make
  up with her.
• Her father dies of a stroke - no reconciliation -
  he leaves the entire estate to the town except
  the contents of the house. hagar takes the
  oaken armchair.
• hagar is upset about the will, not for herself,
  but it would have allowed her son, John, to go
  to college. Instead Mr. Curries money was
  spent on a memorial Park

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Plot 2 - Continued

• hagar remembers Brams uncouth mouth and
  behavior his response to the Glee club the
  Messiah and in the lingerie department.
• He never cared what her father thought of him.