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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Stone Diaries is a 1993 novel by Carol Shields.It is a fictional biography/autobiography (see Switching P.O.V. below) of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a homemaker and 20th century woman. The conceit is that the book is a biography of not an extraordinary woman who goes through a series of dramatic events in her life, but that of a relatively ordinary woman who in a sense misses out on her own life due to the rigid gender roles of 20th century North America.Daisy is born in Manitoba in 1905 to Cuyler Goodwill, a quarry worker, and his wife Mercy Stone Goodwill. Mercy dies in childbirth and Daisy winds up in the care of a neighbor woman, Mrs. Clarentine Flett, who eventually leaves her husband and takes little Daisy to live with Mrs. Flett's grown son, Barker. When Daisy is eleven her father, who has made a career in masonry, reclaims her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A couple of decades pass as Daisy makes friends and goes to school. She goes through a very brief and horribly disastrous marriage before reconnecting with Barker Flett, some 20-odd years her senior; they shock everyone by soon getting married. Many more years roll by as Daisy grows old, and other people flit in and out of her life, and time passes.
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 The Alcoholic: Daisy's first husband, Harold Hoad. He is drunk for the wedding, drunk throughout their honeymoon voyage to Europe, drunk every night on their European tour, and still drunk when he falls out a hotel window and dies. Daisy never consummates her marriage, which only lasts a few weeks.
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