The Stone Angel: Chapter 10

Likes the young nurse who compliments her on her looks. She has to be restrained to stay in bed. Trying to reach a light so that Bram would call her name. Doris brings Mr. Troy, the minister, and Hagar asks him to sing instead of pray. As he concludes with the line “Come ye before him and rejoice”, she comes to a great realization that she wanted to rejoice all her life, but had been held back by “some brake of proper appearances.....” She cries for all that she had lost through pride.

Steven, her grandson visits, and recounts how Steven, her grandson visits, and recounts how she used to give him jawbreakers as a child. She wonders if this is all she meant to him. The lack of communication over the years leaves her with nothing to say. Hagar and Marvin apologize to each other for past transgressions. She lies to him by saying he had been a better son than John.

She overhears Marvin telling a nurse that she She overhears Marvin telling a nurse that she was a ‘holy terror’ and finds some comfort in that he spoke with anger and tenderness. She recalls the last time she visited Manawaka with Marvin and Doris. The caretaker of the cemetery spoke of the two names on the stone - Currie and Shipley, two early pioneers. both were spoken of the same - She realizes – “Nothing to pick and choose between them now. That was as it should be.”

Hagar dies contemplating how in her life Hagar dies contemplating how in her life she had done so little “truly free”. - a lie to Marvin - a joke Dies while she insists to Doris that she hold her glass of water herself. Proud to the end.!!!!!!!