In the book Disgrace, I got a little irrated with the professor David Lurie. It was rather interesting how he was arguing with the people that are trying to help him and save his job. The people of the committee were just trying to get him to say that he did something wrong in order to move on from his charges. But David never fully associated himself with what he did wrong and was not sorry for it.
He told the committee that he learned something and that Melanie had impacted his life, rather than just being a mistake. It was like he thought there was nothing wrong with a 52 almost 53 year old man going after a 20 college student. That was in his class. There was alsso the fact that he had made up her grades and signed her in the classes that she missed. Talk about academic integrity.
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Agreed. At the same time, I feel like his mind was him still being young and handsome and he realizes he is not like that anymore. It is have if he is still hanging on to what he once had and he doesn’t have it anymore.
I find this blog entry interesting. I am doing a paper on geriatric sex in Disgrace, and believe Lurie can not grasp the fact that he is aging out of his “Casanova” days and that young women no longer find him attractive.
I agree compeletly with this blog. David does not try to do anything about his job or anything else for that matter.
He never associated with what he did with being wrong because he did not think it was wrong. Melanie only told him no once. And the other times she just went with it. She never gave him a real reason to believe that what he did was wrong.
Yeah -there seems to be no redemption for David Lurie,he just wants to be left alone so he can fall to the depths of his disgraceful act.
In my opinion, it’s a good thing Lurie doesn’t actively try and save his job. He deserved to lose his job.
I agree with the point that he really cares about what hes done.
I agree completely. David Lurie at the beginning of the book is unwilling to view what he did as wrong. He utterly refuses to. As the book progress, and he changes from within, he slowly comes to realize that what he did was wrong. This was clearly shown when he went to apologize.