The Lees In Wine Are The Dregs And Sediment At The Bottom, The Part That Nobody

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Term Paper Title	The Lees In Wine Are The Dregs And Sediment At The Bottom, The Part That Nobody
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     The lees in wine are the dregs and sediment at the bottom, the part that nobody drinks. In Laurence's The Stone Angel Murray F. Lees is an insurance salesman, who admits that those in his profession are considered the dregs of society. Despite being the kind of person Hagar Shipley would normally have dismissed as boring and annoying, he is actually a representation of atonement. Hagar's atonement starts with developing an understanding of religion and blame, and becomes obvious with purgation. When Hagar is finished with her conversation with Mr. Lees she has atoned for the miseries that have plagued her throughout her life.
     Previous to meeting Mr. Lees, Hagar had no desire to listen to what anyone told her about religion. When the local minister, Mr. Troy, visits her, she is rude and uncooperative with him. However, Mr. Lees is able to communicate with Hagar about religion. Lees was a member of a religious group known as the Redeemer's Advocates, a name that will be representative of his role in Hagar's redemption with herself. Like Hagar, Lees has no actual faith in religion, and says that "I kind of mislaid it and when I went to look for it, it wasn't there". Lees' religion was the cause of his greatest loss, when his son died in a house fire while Murray and Lou Lees were at the Tabernacle. This loss created a permanent distrust in religion for Murray Lees, something Hagar also has. The loss of a child reminds Hagar of the loss of her son, John, which allows her to trust Lees' opinion of religion. Unlike Mr. Troy, who has only learned about suffering by viewing it from the outside, Mr. Lees has life experience, and understands what suffering really is. This creates an emotional bond between Hagar and Mr. Lees, allowing Hagar to finally find someone who shares her view on religion.
     While Mr. Lees was a person that Hagar could identify with for religion, during their discussion she also came to terms with the bla...

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