The Stone Angel, written in 1964, is considered one of the greatest Canadian novels of all time. It is the best known of Margaret Laurence’s five novels set in the fictional town of Manawaka, Manitoba. The novel alternates between 90-year-old Hagar Shipley’s present day (1960’s) grapplings with her inevitable death and memories of her earlier life. Hagar’s bitter first-person narration is unflinchingly honest in its exploration of the effects of age on the body and the mind, a unique look into the psyche of the elderly that is so rarely explored in novel form. One’s sympathy for Hagar, whose life is marred frequently by death against the backdrop of her struggle against societal gender...
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