The woman was frightened that the men would come back nonetheless, she continues to hide the truth as it was her personal business. Lucy has chosen to remain silent about the incident her father says that “it will dawn on them that over the body of the woman silence is being drawn like a blanket” (Coetzee 110). However, the author does not speak directly of the dramatic experience throughout the book (Graham 433). While facing traumatic sexual experience, two main protagonists of the book exhibit different reactions, or, to be precise, they tend to solve the issues in disparate methods. The reader is already able to trace the difference in the lifestyle of these two characters. She is a lesbian white woman that lives a simple lonely life of a farmer in Salem, even despite the fact that she grew up in a family of academicians. On the contrary, there is his daughter Lucy, who is used to work hard with her hands as she lives on her farmland among dogs and beds of flowers and vegetables. The sustenance of David comes from producing new ideas he is an author of several books and even intends to write an opera. As the reader explores the story of Lurie “and his changing thought processes, he can begin to sympathize with his plight, feel his suffering, and feel his downfall as he feels it.įinally, as David completes the transition, the reader is pulled into an emotional experience of the story, a catharsis” (Gerundo par. The tree features that can illustrate the character of the protagonist David Lurie are adversity, adjustment, and recovery. These events appeared to be turning in a book they began to change the outlook of the characters. However, they were not able to live a peaceful life for long: while they were walking their dogs, three African men tricked them, raped Lucy, knocked Lurie unconscious, and ravaged their home. After being involved in a sexual scandal at his workplace at University, David returns to the farm where his daughter Lucy lives.

He is a divorced man in his fifties, who still remains sexually active. The author described David Lurie as “the once-powerful and respected David is left as a mad old man sitting among the dogs singing to himself” (Coetzee 212). Even though the characters David Lurie and Lucy Lurie have in common the suffering of facing traumatic sexual experiences, their conflict-resolution styles are very dissimilar due to their social environments and sexual genres. The author of the novel exposes the prospect of an adverse impact of social and political diversities on both favored and disfavored members of society moreover, Coetzee reveals different means of confronting the issues by two main characters.

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