The Stone Angel And The Fifth Business: Analysis Of The Main Characters

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to his mother's reports on the premature birth of
Paul Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it.
Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has
encouraged him to feel guilty about almost every lapse of duty.
So at the beginning of the two novels the reader learns that the
first feeling of guilt that the two main characters share is a birth of one
of the characters presented in the novels. In The Stone Angel Hagar blamed
herself for being born, because it was she that caused her mother's death.
She felt that it should be her who should die not her mother. In The Fifth
Business the main character Dunny felt really guilty for dodging a snowball
that hit pregnant Mrs. Dempster. He knew that the snowball was thrown by
Percy Staunton at him. "I was perfectly sure, you see, that the birth of
Paul Dempster, so small, so feeble and troublesome, was my fault" (Davies
22) Ramsay blamed himself for not letting it hit him and a ...

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her mother's
shawl. Despite, her brother, Matt's begging she did not do it, " 'Hagar-
put it on and hold for a while.' I stiffened and drew away my hands. 'I
can't. Oh Matt , I'm sorry, but I can't, I can't. I'm not a bit like
her.' " (Laurance 21) Hagar did not want to play a person whom she did not
know and being her own mother was beyond her. Similar situation occurred
to Ramsay when he was in love with Leola Cruikshank, a beatiful girl who
lived in the same town. He was unable to show his feelings towards her
although he loved her very much. She was the first girl that he turned his
attraction to. She has "cork-screw curls and a great way of never meeting
your eyes." ...

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