Hagar finds herself emotionally bound due to her inordinate self-esteem, arrogance, and personal dignity; pride. Hagar’s pride exists as a symptom of her fear of being humiliated. When her brother Dan was delirious and dying, Matt begged her to put on their mothers shawl to relieve Dan to some degree. Hagar found herself “crying, shaken by torments he never even expected”(25). She is too proud to play her mother and unable t

(The Stone Angel, 303)

trembling was all-inner…I prided myself on keeping my pride

seen, then women Dan was said to resemble so much and

o accept the role even in such a distressful situation.

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