Abstract
The appearance of Murray Lees relatively late in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel marks a fundamental shift in Hagar Shipley ’s internal development. Though Hagar finds Murray repulsive in certain ways, she recognizes in his life-story a version of her own and, subsequently, aspects of her personality which she has been forced to repress for much of her life. Murray, then, acts as Hagar’s alternate ego, allowing her to admit her regrets about the past, to reclaim those qualities that she relinquished before a masculine-ordered Manawaka society, and finally to complete the resonant internal change for which she has struggled since the death of John, her son.
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