Minor Characters In Fifth Business

There are characters in every story to help build a meaning to what is being told. Just because the story is build upon a major character, that doesn’t mean that minor characters aren’t as important. Three reasons that minor characters are important is that they help develop the plot in the story, they can influence how the major character might act, and having minor characters intrigues the audience.

In Fifth Business, a novel written by Robertson Davies, has a lot of minor characters that can easily explain how they helped develop the plot. A minor character, Mrs. Dempster, gave birth to her son prematurely and then became a “simple” woman throughout the rest of the novel. This incident happened very early in the novel, which then influenced all the characters to surround themselves around Mrs. Dempster's character because they had to help do daily chores and raise her son because she wasn’t able to do them. Mrs Dempster wasn’t a major character because she wasn’t shown in the book throughout, though she was mentioned a lot throughout the book because she had such a big impact on the major character, Dunstan Ramsay. Dunstan revolved

Minor character’s come into a story to intrigue the audience and help the story remain interesting. In fifth business, Percy caused drama with Dunstan because they referred to each other as enemies. Percy wasn’t just in the beginning of the story and then gone as soon as Dunstan went to the war. When Dunstan came back from the war, he and Percy reunited and actually became friends until he passed away in a car accident. What is interesting about this particular death, is that Mrs. Dempster's son, Paul, might have been to blame for Percy or Boy’s