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The Paris Review - The Horror of Good Behaviour
Molly Keane. Photo: © D. Donahue. âAll my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,â says Aroon St. Charles, the tall, bosomy antiheroine of Molly Keaneâs Good Behaviour, minutes after killing her mother . âI have lived for the people dearest to me, and I am at a loss to know why their lives have been at times so perplexingly unhappy.â As a narrator, Aroon is a monster of repression, revealing things she herself does not know on every page. Take this first scene, in which sheâwell, murder is such an ugly word. Letâs just say the book opens with Aroon speeding her invalid motherâs twilight years to their inevitable conclusion with the aid of an indigestible rabbit mousse. When, afterward, she orders the housekeeper to save the leftovers for lunchâmustnât waste!âwe know, even if she doesnât, that this act of symbolic cannibalism is meant to perfect her revenge. But reveng
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