The Stone Angel Chapter 2 Plot 1 Summary

The Stone Angel: Chapter 2

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.

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 can’t 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”.

• • • 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 Mc. Vitie 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.

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 doesn’t 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. Currie’s money was spent on a memorial Park

Plot 2 - Continued • hagar remembers Bram’s 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.