Lesson learn equals one suffering

In this novel David clearly wants women for one reason and that is for sexual intercourse this can not be classified as intimacy because there is no sense of foreplay or taking the time to be intimate so perhaps his desire is only to feel pleasure by having sex with no attachment. He is being selfish in the sense that he wants to fulfill his manly desire which we discuss in class as being brought on by natural desires of men. Could it be that in the sense of the dogs David was slowly becoming an untamed dog. From the beginning of the book it states that he is divorce but we have yet to find out the reason. Could it be that his daughter Lucy had to suffer for him to learn a lesson? I mean he was slowly turning into a man that looked at women just as a sex symbol something to get his hands on and if he did not accomplish this he became aggressive like in the case of the sex he has with Melanie. So perhaps it could be that his daughter unfortunate incident is an eye opener for him in the sense that he comes to a realization that the way he treats women is not okay and its not morally nice? His daughter had to suffer this horrified action of crime for him to come to terms with his own innate sexual desires? I do not know if it has to do so much with race as I have not reached so far in the book to draw such conclusions. However I still stand to say that he never raped Melanie and her actions to file a complaint against him has hidden motives she has to have a hidden agenda