Shadows in Fifth Business :: Fifth Business

Shadows in Fifth championship Incidences that occur in ones childhood tend to affect them possibly for the pass off of the rest of their life. This applies to the novel Fifth Business and the characters Dunstan Ramsey and male child Staunton. Throughout the lives of these characters Dunstan lives in the shadow of male child collectable to feelings of guilt and righteousness as a result of one winter evening in the town of Deptford. As Boy and Dunny grew up together they were each others best friends and also wrap up enemies, but they were on basically equal terms in their childlike trials of life. This remained to be true until that winter day in Deptford when Mrs. Dempster was struck with a snowball that was meant for Dunny. Since that point in time Dunny, being the more care 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 worrying everyplace Mary Dempster, and now her son Paul. At the age of sixteen the exquisite town of Deptford becomes too much for Dunny to handle so he decides to leave out out of secondary school and join the Army. Dunny needed a alter in his life, something to get his mind off Mrs. Dempster and the guilt he felt up for her. Leading up to his departure to the War he never genuinely 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 trouble Dunny, much more then he would ever let on. On the other hand, Boy was doing as well as ever, possibly due to the fact that he knew that much of the responsibility of Mary and Paul was firmly on the shoulders of Dunny. Dunny knew this as well but it was too late to do much about it except leave. While Dunny was away at war, Boy was still finishing school and in the process of stealing Dunnys lady friend while he was away. Boy and D unstan had been competing for Leola all their life up until when Dunny left. This bolshie for Dunstan could afford been avoided if in fact he had not accepted responsibility for the snowball incident he wouldnt have had to leave and therefore could have kept Leola.