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Patrick Radden Keefe
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Everything you need to study or teach literature!

Patrick Radden Keefe
This Study Guide consists of approximately 50 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Say Nothing.
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Keefe implies that, though Dolours Price’s death had the telltale signs of a suicide, her death was the product of much more. Explain.

Keefe describes Dolours, particularly in her middle- and older age, as an emotionally fragile, haunted woman. For example, while she was capable of speaking to Ed Moloney about her experiences working for the Provos and even told him it would be alright for the truth about her involvement in Jean McConville’s murder to come out, her conduct during the interview demonstrated that she had not reconciled herself with her own past quite as much as she wanted him to believe. Her words did not speak of remorse, but her hesitation, her defensiveness, and her intense desire to get the truth out in the world appear to show a fragility and a repentance which Keefe picks up on and highlights for the reader...

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