Shadows in Fifth Business :: Fifth Business

Shadows in fifth Business Incidences that occur in ones childhood tend to affect them maybe for the rest of the rest of their life history. This applies to the novel Fifth Business and the characters Dunstan Ramsey and Boy Staunton. passim the lives of these characters Dunstan lives in the shadow of Boy due to feelings of wrong and responsibility as a result of one winter evening in the township of Deptford. As Boy and Dunny grew up together they were each others best friends and overly worst enemies, but they were on basically equal terms in their childish trials of life. This remained to be true until that winter day in Deptford when Mrs. Dempster was infatuated with a snowball that was meant for Dunny. Since that point in time Dunny, being the more(prenominal) caring and excepting of responsibility for other peoples problems, of the two, has not lived up to par with the life of Boy Staunton. Ever since the snowball accident Dunny has been preoccupied by anguish over M ary Dempster, and now her son capital of Minnesota. At the age of 16 the small town of Deptford becomes too much for Dunny to handle so he decides to drop out of secondary school and join the Army. Dunny needed a change in his life, something to get his mind off Mrs. Dempster and the guilt he felt for her. Leading up to his departure to the War he neer really saw much of Mary, mainly because Mr. Dempster told him to stay away, but also because every time him saw her he couldnt hold back feelings of guilt and remorse. This troubled Dunny, much more then he would ever allow on. On the other hand, Boy was doing as well as ever, mayhap due to the fact that he knew that much of the responsibility of Mary and Paul was securely on the shoulders of Dunny. Dunny knew this as well but it was too slow to do much about it except leave. While Dunny was away at war, Boy was still finishing school and in the process of thievery Dunnys girl while he was away. Boy and Dunstan had been competin g for Leola all their life up until when Dunny left. This loss for Dunstan could have been avoided if in fact he had not evaluate responsibility for the snowball incident he wouldnt have had to leave and accordingly could have kept Leola.