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Mr. Amasa Dempster
Boy grows from being a petulant and irresponsible young boy to an ambitious and egotistic man. He is a genius with finance and manages to avoid failure during the Great Depression. He receives honors in WWI, marries his childhood sweetheart, Leola, with whom he has two children, and is all but a celebrity. But despite all of this good fortune he is unhappy. He carries on multiple affairs, and is completely unfazed when Leola discovers this. After Leola dies, he marries another woman named Denyse, who helps him to a rocky but ultimately successful career in politics. Even this is not enough to make Boy happy, and he remains unfulfilled. Though he threw the snowball that injured Mrs. Dempster, he has no memory of their family at all. Boy dies in an apparent car wreck with the stone from the snowball in his mouth—he is most likely killed by Paul.
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It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else had recognized and defined.
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Boy had always been fond of the sexual pleasure that women could give him, but I doubt if he ever knew much about women as people.
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“You created a God in your own image, and when you found out he was no good you abolished him. It’s a quite common form of psychological suicide.”
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Boy (Percy Boyd) Staunton Quotes in Fifth Business
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Boy had always been fond of the sexual pleasure that women could give him, but I doubt if he ever knew much about women as people.
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“You created a God in your own image, and when you found out he was no good you abolished him. It’s a quite common form of psychological suicide.”
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