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This 9 page paper examines the protagonist in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and his obsessions. Dunstan's obsessions are saints in addition to two people in his life. The story, by a Canadian writer, takes place early in the twentieth century and involves one event that ties several lives together forever. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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concepts. Dunstan Ramsay is entranced with Mary Dempster, the Saints and Percy Boyd Staunton. Although other things fill his mind, throughout his life, his admitted friend and enemy Percy
is foremost on his mind. The fact that Percy meets with death in an untimely and mysterious manner adds to the problems that plague Dunstan. His obsession with Mary is
not simply something akin to a boyish crush gone awry but rather something that is related to Staunton and one unfortunate day, and all of these things lead the protagonist
to embark on a quest. For all intents and purposes, the story begins in 1908, a time of innocence and snowball fights. Percy Staunton and Dunstan Ramsay are
fighting over a sled and engage in such a melee. It is seemingly harmless. As fate would have it, Percy accidentally hits a lady by the name of Mary Dempster
with a snowball. She is pregnant and the action causes her son Paul to be born early and perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that the snowball was
meant for Dunstan. One can see that guilt may be a part of this picture. In a way, Mary took the bullet for him. Of course, in general, snowballs
are rather harmless but ice and snow can be deadly for pregnant women, particularly during the turn of the century when medical interventions were not as commonplace. Also, a small
rock embedded in a snowball can hurt, as was the case in this incident. Mary would go into labor. Perhaps it was due to the snowball. Perhaps it would have
happened anyway, but certainly, there seems to be a cause and effect relationship in this novel that thrives on synchronicity and the meaning of life. It does not seem to
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