Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Irony in Disgrace

I just wanted to bring up the incredible irony that we come across in the reading for today. I found it funny how after we just had a discussion about rape and consent, we come across the horrible scene in which something bad happens to David's daughter, Lucy. They encounter three men at the farm, and when one asks to use their phone the other's force themselves in. Lurie is knocked out, and after the ordeal is over, Lucy tells David that she has been raped.

She refuses to tell Lurie many details, and doesn't report the part about the rape in the police report. It's interesting to wonder how much this effects David, and if he relates to his experiences with women in his past. He starts to grow further away from his daughter after this, and he begins to get cut-off, just as his old prostitute cuts him off, and also how he loses his relationship with Melanie.

2 comments:

  1. I agree that there is too big of a connection to ignore between David's relationship with Lucy and his relationship with Soraya.
    Soraya cut off her relationship with David because they were too impersonal and she couldn't handle the reality that came between them when they saw themselves as normal people.
    David starts distancing himself from Lucy because they had a relationship that was totally void of any sexuality and he couldn't handle the reality that came between them when she got raped. Also, in his mind, I think David always saw sexual activity as a highly impersonal and distant act.
    I think this provides an interesting insight in David's sexual world. He wanted things to be more personal with Soraya and also more personal with his daughter. The only instance where David wants things to be less personal is with Michelle and I think that toward the end, he started wanted to closer and more personal to her too. I think that these all point to David being more lonely than anything else.

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  2. It seems that David is always being cut off by women and it is because the women in his life realize that they need their space from him. For example with his daughter she has just been raped and she probably does not feel comfortable talking about it with her father whom by the way she has not seen in a long time before his visit to the farm becasue he is in trouble. Not only does she not want to open up with him but Soraya never really opened up with him either. He was always the one telling his story and his life this is a great comparison is there something wrong with David that both of these women felt like they could not confide in him. Or is it that they feel he is like a dog. Which brings up another topic about the whole section about dogs. Was this suppose to be a symbolic representation of David. I mean these dogs have been abonded just like David is always being abandon. They have no home and this is just like David is has lost his home I mean he choose to move to the farm but in any case he lost his home in the sense that it will never be the same home it was before the incident with Melanie.

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