Most will overlook, .
however, that he still does not have love. David seems like a better person at the .
conclusion of Disgrace, but is he really? Coetzee's stance is not clear.
Coetzee suggests a personal view through David Lurie. Is David simply living for .
the sake of living? The author paints the picture of David as a cynical and uninvolved .
person. One can pick up on Coetzee's challenge of political correctness right from the .
beginning of the novel, with the very first line, "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, .
he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well." The reader is led to believe .
that since David is so confused throughout the novel, that his confusion stems from .
Coetzee's own political incorrectness. What does Coetzee want us to believe? His views .
can never be pinned down for they always seem ambiguous or undefined. For example, .
the lines, "The more things change the more they remain the same. History repeating .
itself, though in a more modest vein. Perhaps history has learned a lesson." The .
aforementioned were the lines that were supposed to convey the author's emotions about .
David Lurie's actions, but the lines do not help in determining what position the author is .
taking, they just serve to confuse the reader further. Coetzee's writing is chaste, he does .
not contaminate the reader with ideas and he leaves his work pure, but he does in fact .
leave many of his opinions unclear forcing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. .
Take the following lines for example, "Not for the first time, he wonders whether women .
would not be happier living in communities of women, accepting visits from men only .
when they choose. Perhaps he is wrong to think of Lucy as homosexual. Perhaps she .
( 3 ).
simply prefers female company. Or perhaps that is all that lesbians are: women who have .
no need of men." Coetzee does not take a stance on the topic of homosexuality, but .
