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A 3 page paper which examines gender, parental, and social roles in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. No additional sources cited.
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that ultimately brings about a pleasant conclusion for any given plot line. It is a story of people, average people in various parts of the world. It speaks of oppression,
struggles, love, hopes, dreams, parenting and many other things. The following paper examines gender, parental, and social roles in the story. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee The first topic is
what kind of father the character of David is. In the beginning of the story his daughter is grown and gone and the reader sees how he ultimately is lost,
seeks solace in sex, and is fired from his job. He is a very lost soul in many respects and one clearly would not expect him to have really been
any kind of father to Lucy in the past. He thinks, however, that he can go move in with his daughter in South Africa and find some peace in a
simple sort of life that he envisions she exists within. In this one sees that he is a father who assumes his daughter is a particular way, the way she
was when she was little. He is, in many ways, nothing more than a very immature man who is not really very capable of being a father because he is
very self absorbed.. He may recall taking care of her, taking her to ballet class, and claiming to be worried about her, but there is clearly something lacking due to
his self consumed world. But, at the same time there is something very deep and needy about his love for her and his concern for her as "she becomes his
second salvation, the bride of his youth reborn" (Coetzee 86). Another parental figure is Melanies father who seems incredibly blind to who his daughter is as well. When he
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