Comment on the use of imagery in ‘The Solid Mandala’ and ‘The Stone Angel’.
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Symbol: The Stone Angel
At the beginning of the novel, the narrator introduces a stone statue of an angel, ancient and battered by the ravages of time and the elements. Hagar, the narrator, identifies strongly with the statue. Hagar is rigid and unbending in her attitudes, abrasive and hard to many of the other people around her, and disinclined to express her feelings or to consider the well-being of others. Yet she is not completely without emotion: she feels the negative emotions of guilt, sorrow, and regret; she is simply unwilling or unable to express them, even when she is alone.
That Hagar should choose a stone angel as a symbol for herself is also a reference to her excessive pride. An angel is a more exalted and holy creature than a human being, and as a literal angel, so too does Hagar believe herself to be superior to the people around her