Hypertext Response Project

A quotation that shows the importance of place (setting) in the novel.

“Our cillage never seemed to me to be like that. It was more varied in what it offerd to the observer than people from bigger and more sophistivated place generally think, and if it had sins and follies and roughnesses, it also had much to show of virtue, dignity, and even of nobility.” (Fifth Business, page 8)



A quotation that shows the relationship between two characters.

“If you think her a saint, she is a saint to you.” (Fifth Business, page 162)



A quotation that helps establish a metaphor explored in the novel.

“I was…a happy goat who had wandered into the wondrous enclosed garden of hagiology, and I grazed greedily and contentedly. When the time came at last for me to go home, I knew I had found a happiness that would endure.” By Dunstan Ramsay





A quote of the novel, one passage or quotation that captures the essence, true meaning, of the novel for you.

And you must have Fifth Business because he is the one who knows the secret of the hero’s birth, or comes to the assistance of the heroine when she thinks all is lost, or keeps the hermitess in her cell, or may even be the cause of somebody’s death if that is part of the plot. (Fifth Business, page 214)



Happy like chocolate，always sweet
Happy like yoghourt，always sour
happy like coffee, always bitter

happy like pepper，always peppery