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Margaret Laurence’s *The Stone Angel* (1964) can be analyzed through the lens of a Vollendungsroman, a sub-genre of the Bildungsroman, which emphasizes not the coming-of-age of a young protagonist, but rather the process of *completion* or *self-understanding* in old age. In *The Stone Angel*, the protagonist Hagar Shipley, at the age of ninety, undergoes a retrospective self-journey in which she confronts her memories, regrets, and decisions. This journey toward completion and reconciliation with the self is what defines the Vollendungsroman element in the novel. One of the central features of a Vollendungsroman is the narrative structure of retrospection, where an aged protagonist reflects on the totality of their life. The narrative of *The Stone Angel* is constructed through a complex temporal structure, alternating between the present and the past. Hagar, battling physical decline ____ ___ ________ ____ _________ _____ _____ ________ _____ _____.
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