Laurence's use of Lilacs to foreshadow Bad Events in The Stone Angel They often say if you want to gain something you need to lose something in return. Hagar Shipley did this by purchasing a dress that she liked if she knew that she would have to sacrifice her independence that purchase would have never happened. In the novel The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence uses the first person narrative to describe Hagar Shipley's life the good times and the bad times. Margaret Laurence uses flower and colour imagery to symbolize the foreshadowing of disastrous events that occur in the novel. The colour lilac and the flower lilacs are portrayed through a silk dress, Which Hagar wears many times in the novel. The lilac dress is first introduced on the day that Hagar purcdhases the dress. She refers to the past and reminisces on the day she bought the dress with the Doris, her daughter in law. "I wear my li....

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