David

David seems to have issues with his age therefore I believe that he 
preys on young beautiful women to make himself feel young once again. 
With Melanie he thinks to himself as he is calling her to invite her 
for lunch that she is too old for him yet he still invites her for 
lunch. This is one of the reasons why I drew this conclusion, why else 
would he want such a young girl she is 20 and he is 52. Also after 
Soraya leaves the Escort agency he finds another girl who is no more 
than 18 years old. "This one is no more than eighteen" (Coetzee 8). 
The fact that when Soraya leaves to return to her family life he feels 
that he can not continue without her he needed to find another soraya 
perhaps Melanie is this other Soraya. Also the fact that he would 
jepordize his career simply becasue he does not want to get caught up 
with the way the system works. His collegues want him to give a 
sincere apologize however he refuses because he does not beleive what 
he did was wrong. Although he is being charged with Harrassement he 
does not feel the need to make his own statement which strikes me as 
odd. Does this mean that sex is the only important thing going for 
him. I mean clearly he is fed up with his current career he has been 
divorced twice. He knows that he is getting old and he knows that one 
day he will be dried up could it be that he wants to enjoy life now?

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