![]() Troy tells Hagar that it is important for her to have people her age to whom she can speak. The next day, she scrubs the house clean.īack in the present, Mr. Bram takes her virginity, which is very shocking to Hagar, who never imagined what it would be like. Hagar moves into the Shipley house, which is musty and dirty. Since that moment, she has been estranged from her father. Lottie Dreiser also warns her that Brampton is “common as dirt.” When Hagar informs her father that she will marry Brampton, he is infuriated and does not participate in their wedding, feeling that it is a betrayal of him. Hagar’s father disapproves of him, calling him lazy. ![]() Brampton’s first wife had died suddenly and left him as a widowed father of two girls. One night at a dance, she meets Brampton Shipley and feels an attraction to him. She does not end up being a teacher and instead works for her father, acting as a hostess and keeping his accounts. When Hagar comes back from school, she upsets her father by telling him that she wants to work as a school teacher. ![]() ![]() Her brother Matt stayed behind and worked at her father’s store. Hagar recalls when she became an adult and her father sent her to the east for college, where she learned so-called feminine skills such as planning a menu and embroidery. Troy is not able to actually understand her, even though he appears to try. She is discussing how her father was a very wealthy man but never shared any of it with her. In the present day of the story, Hagar is visited by the local minister, Mr. ![]()
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