In Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, the main character Hagar Shipley refused to compromise which shaped the outcome of her life as well as the lives of those around her. 'Pride was my wilderness and the demon that led me there was fear... [I was] never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.' (Laurence, 292). Hagar's pride and stubbornness were the causes of …showed first 75 words of 936 total…

…showed last 75 words of 936 total…of her and her family's happiness and destroyed her and the lives of those she cared about.         In conclusion, Hagar's Shipley's refusal to compromise, due to her excessive pride and stubbornness shaped the outcome of her life and those around her. Her pride destroyed her relationships with her father, brother, husband and her son John. Her stubbornness denied happiness for her marriage, Marvin and Doris. It also led to the cause of her own death.