FIFTH BUSINESS

Fifth Business

Fifth Business

Fifth business the novel written by Robertson Davies revolves around competition guilt and two people who are foils of each other. Robert has carried foil literary tool style by contrasting both the characters in the story. However, Percy Boyd Staunton and Dunstan Ramsey are two parallel characters to each other. Foil literature is a type of toll in which one character is written in contrast to another character. (Davies, 1996)

The two characters have contrast in many ways. Their uncomfortable relationship played an essential part in through different elements which makes the Fifth business an extremely interesting story. Dunstan ...