Essays on Fifth Business

In the beginning of part two of Robertson Davies’s novel Fifth Business, Dunstan Ramsay, the narrator of the novel, fought in The Great War from the year 1915 until 1917, however, he barely socialized with his comrades and instead, he repeatedly read the New Testament; therefore he received the nickname, Deacon. During a fight in...

Retell: Part four of the novel Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, begins with Boy Staunton who made a fortune off of his sugar business during the Great Depression; however, he began to frequently visit Dunstan to talk about his trouble with Leola and how she was not what he wanted her to be. Dunstan travelled...

A person’s psyche is shaped by the events that are lived out in day-to-day life. As the young mind and identity are still in development, children become more susceptible to the influence that these early experiences have on their lives. In the novel Fifth Business, written by Robertson Davies, the narrator Dunstan Ramsay recounts how...