Character Analysis: Fifth Business Davies

In Fifth Business, Leola suffers a tragic event since she is unable to adapt to the environment. It is Boy who is responsible for Leola’s fate during the section 4 because without him, Leola will probably more responsible and independent. Throughout the Section 4 of the novel, Fifth Business Davies shows how Boy is incredible financially stable; he certainly can buy anything he wants. However, Boy abuses his wife slowly throughout the section by verbally and emotionally. By doing so, he is to blame for all Leola’s destiny since they get married. Even Dunny agrees to the statement that Boy plays a huge role of Leola’s fate he states, “Boy never let it be forgotten that he had as he supposed, taken Leola from me; he was very jocose about it, and sometimes allowed himself a tiny roguish hint that it might have been better for us all if things had gone the other way” (pg. 141) and “my observation of Boy’s unwitting destruction of Leola” (pg. 151). This indicates that Dunny thinks Boy makes a difficult decision to be with Leola for the rest of his life because he does not treat her like a wife and does not appreciate what she does …show more content…
Leola goes to the closet to get Boy’s coat and finds a note from one of the great-spirited women in Montreal. As she confronts Boy about the note, he did not feel any guilt and decides to leave his family. Before Boy leave the house he says, “There’s no reason to carry on like that .... Your situation is perfectly secure. But if you think I intend to be tied down to this sort of thing .... You can think again” (pg. 174). This demonstrate the true colour of Boy, he finally reveals to his wife that he never likes her neither the kids. Since he leaves the house, it feels like he wants to divorce her. What saddens her the most is no one love her even Dunny admits: “Of course I didn’t love her” (pg. 175). As such, the struggles that Leola encounter comes to end when she commits