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Disgrace Study Guide

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by John Maxwell Coetzee
About 71 pages (21,250 words)
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Chapter 4 Summary

As David makes love to Melanie on the floor of his daughter's room, he senses that her inexperience is the cause of her shyness during lovemaking. He also imagines that she is beginning to respond more to his touch, and is very excited by this. Melanie asks him about his past and his life, if he has slept with other students, and why he doesn't keep pictures of his past wives. That same day, as David is in his office, a young man enters his office unannounced. He is dressed in black leather and has a sense of trouble around him. He says he knows David has been sleeping with Melanie, and threatens him. That evening, Melanie does not come to his apartment and his car is vandalized in the street.

When Melanie shows.....

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