![]() ![]() She is honest and hard-working and caring. At all.Ĭarol, on the other hand, must be a ‘good’ person. Some of the happiest moments in the book do occur between her and Roy, sexually however, this is not enough for her to attain an enduring status of goodness. Moira is more complex, at first, and I don’t want to spoil things too much by elaborating. ![]() Bobo Jusus demonstrates his brutality and thus we aren’t going to warm to him. This isn’t the case with Lily, his mother, for factors I have already mentioned. And for one brief moment Roy might have achieved the morally sound life of an ordinary person, yet this just doesn’t work out.īut Roy is likeable. In most cases they would seem in fact to be victims of their own naivety which Roy merely exploits. This has included criminal activity, but he plays the short con rather than the long and this wouldn’t seem to cause his victims any major harm. After a tough upbringing by an indifferent, even harsh mother, he has done well to get where he is in life. ![]() No, there probably aren’t any ‘good’ characters in this novel. ![]()
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