Willie’s illness and revival are surrounded by mythical and seemingly magical events which impact Dunny’s beliefs and others’ perception of him. Some of these events include Mrs.Dempster prayer over Willie’s “dead body”’ seemingly restoring his life to him. This impacts Dunny’s beliefs because he truly believes that her prayer has brought Willie back to life. this further impacts his beliefs as he thinks that this was one of three miraculous acts that has made Dunny think that Mrs.Dempster is a saint. It changes other people’s perception of him because his friends at school think of him as “a credulous ass who thought that a dangerous lunatic could raise the dead”(Davis, 56). It was more serious to the adults though and some “suggested to [his]
