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. Le...