| Term Paper Title | Diana |
| # of Words | 544 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 2.18 |
Diana
In the novel Fifth Business, the theme of rebirth is apparent. Diana Marfleet,
a volunteer nurse, is responsible for tending to the injured. One of the injured
she aids is Dunstable Ramsay, the narrator of the novel. Dunstables involvements
in World War II, causes him severe physical damage. Diana plays an integral part
in the rebirth of Dunstable, by taking the role of a friend, mother and lover in
his life.
A person with whom one enjoys mutual affection and regard is identified as a
friend. Diana’s displays the act of friendship when Dunstable acknowledges,
“We were on tremendous terms in no time, for she had been nursing me since
I had come to the hospital …and such nourishment as I had taken had been
spooned and poured into me by her; she had also washed me and attended to the
bedpan and the urinal, and continued to do so; a girl who can do that without
being facetious or making a man feel acknowledges is no ordinary creature. Diana
was a wonderful girl, and I am sure I gained strength and made physical progress
at an unusual rate because of her.” (p. 80)
Dunstable recognizes all of Diana’s efforts and affection in taking the
time to assist with his injuries from the war, being comfortable around each
other, in almost any given situation and helping him in the everyday tasks, that
he could no longer do on his own; just as any true friend would. Dunstable
believes that, if it were not for their friendship, he would not have healed so
quickly. Dunstable is reborn in the sense, that even after all the hardship he
gone through he still has someone to look upon as a true friend who treats and
respects him no...Read entire document
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