Dave Lurie Disgrace Quotes

Disgrace is a word in which everyone is familiar with, whether we see it through our own merits or the merits of others. Throughout J.M. Coetzee 's novel Disgrace we see the fall of a prestigious man, Dave Lurie, and how he copes with his own disgrace. The novel also gives us incite on his character and his perspective in which David sees everything around him involving the disgraces he was put through throughout the story as part of his own personal story.

This statement could be elaborated upon by David 's constant discussions with himself. In these various discussions David attempts to put himself into anothers shoes while he still focuses on himself. Whether it be his own daughter or a prostitute he has had relations with. David usually asks himself what do others think of the situation involving him. "As for her, she cannot hide from him what is passing through her mind: so this is the man my sister has been naked with! So this is the man she has done it with! This old man!" (Coetzee 169) This quote gives a fine example of David 's inner discussions. David who attended a dinner with the …show more content…
David Lurie is the main character of the novel but David 's own beliefs and perspective make him see himself not as a main character of the novel but the main character of life itself. He seems to catch a glimpse of this as he himself states "Not her father 's little girl, not any longer." (Coetzee 1) This shows that he can no longer able to control his daughter and that she is a main character of her own story not a minor in his. His epiphany allows the reader to make an assumption that David actually believes he is a main character in life. "Then again don 't we all feel as though we are the main character of our own stories." This question can be answered ambiguously as most would say yes and others would say