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A Stone Angel    Characters Hagar Currie Shipley At the beginning of the novel, Hagar is ninety years old. She has outlived her husband and one of her sons. When she discovers that her surviving son and her daughter-in-law plan to put her into a nursing home, she runs away into the woods. Bram Shipley Bram Shipley is the farmer Hagar marries, at the expense of her relationship with her parents and family, who disown her. He is rough and ill-mannered, and the two eventually separate but do not divorce. Over time he develops a drinking problem which is aggravated by Hagar's lack of respect for him. Marvin Shipley Marvin is the eldest of Hagar's two sons. He is by far the more loyal and loving of the two, however Hagar inexplicably favors his younger brother John. He is married to a woman named Doris, and is Hagar's sole caregiver. However he is no longer able to provide the care that Hagar needs. Accordingly, he makes the very difficult decision to move ...