This quote proves that it was offered by Bram as a wedding gift to symbolize his love. Hagar treated it as it were nothing because she did not recognize it as love, she was blindfolded by her pride and could not say anything. The two quotes mentioned above concretely prove that it was Hagar's strong nature of pride that fiercely tore their marriage apart. .
Furthermore, when Hagar was a married lady it was her established pride that kept her a distant from society. For example, one day Bram had embarrassed Hagar in Simlow's Ladies Wear, by fingering female undergarments and commenting on their price in a loud voice. His reply was that he did not care what Hagar or her friends thought of him. After the first year of marriage, Bram would always go to town by himself and Hagar would stay home. .
"Well listen here, Hagar, let's get one thing straight. I talk the way I talk, .
and I ain't likely to change now. If it's not good enough, that's too damn bad." "You don't even try," I said. "I don't care to," he said. "I don't give a Christly .
curse how I talk, so get that through your head. It don't matter to me what .
your friends or your old man think." He believed his words implicitly. But .
what a green girl I must have been, to believe them equally. After the first .
year of our marriage, I let Bram go to town alone, and I stayed home. He .
raised no objection.
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This quote proves that Hagar has kept herself from society because of Bram's embarrassment and she did not want to get humiliated because of her defiant pride. Her pride has kept her to minimal sociability with other people in the town that she has kept far from society. Once again, due to her stubborn pride she had brought nothing constructive into her life. .
Lastly, Hagar's bold pride has made her a poor mother to both her children. Hagar was a character who judged people because it was her nature. Her pride kept her emotions within and treated the children as if they were dolls.