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…showed last 75 words of 564 total…on being independent and self-sufficient, and in these last days of her life, she realizes what a price she has paid over the years. The main burden of the novel is the change which comes to Hagar as a person. At the end her hardness melts and her egocentrism softens, in this way establishing a redemptive pattern for the novel. In the final analysis there is a sense of pathos in our attitudes towards her.