The snowball surprises her, and she goes into premature labor, delivering a son named Paul Dempster. Mary is the pregnant wife of the local Baptist minister. Percy tries to hit him with a snowball, but Ramsay jumps out of the way and it hits Mary Dempster instead. Dempster,” it is1908 and ten-year-old Ramsay is having a quarrel with his friend Percy Boyd Staunton. Epistolary novels use structures such as journal entries or letters to tell the story. An epistolary novel, Fifth Business is split into six parts. This behavior is more common in Christianity than other religions. Known also as holy fools and blessed fools, this term refers to someone who gives up all of their belongings and joins a monastic order or goes against the grain in society in order to serve a religious goal. Throughout the story, he carries the guilt from an accident during his childhood involving Mary Dempster, and is convinced Mary is a fool-saint. The protagonist and narrator Dunstan Ramsay has an impassioned interest in hagiography, or the biographies of saints and other spiritual beings.
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies is the first novel of the Deptford Trilogy.
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