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Fifth Business: Search for Self Identity


In Robertson Davies' novel Fifth Business, the author uses the events
that occurred in Deptford as a Canadian Allusion to reveal character identity.
Three characters in the novel from Deptford: Boy Staunton, Dunstan Ramsey and
Paul Dempster, leave Deptford to embark on a new identity to rid of their horrid
past. The three main characters of the novel, all of whom to some extent try to
escape their small town background, change their identity to become people of
consequence. All in some way take on a new identity. Imbedded in this
transformation is the assumption that one's original self, especially one's
small town origins, must be discarded before one can become significant in the
world.
Firstly, Paul Dempster grows up as an outcast in Deptford, his mother's
'simpleness' leading the tight social world of the town to cast out his whole
family and force's Paul to leave the town and create a new image for himself.
Paul runs away to the......

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