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Essay Archive - Davis' "Fifth Business": Death of Boy Staunton
Davis' "Fifth Business": Death of Boy Staunton
Guilt can only be suppressed for a limited time before it comes out in
unwanted ways. In the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, Boy Staunton -a
successful business man with a polished appearance but a tortured soul- took the
ultimate plunge into his death. His decision was not merely his own, but was
influenced by a team of hands that helped push him to his destiny. First Leola,
who was his first love and his wife. Then Mary Dempster, a neighbor from his old
town Deptford, whom he mistakenly made into a “simple” woman. Next his life
long-f....
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