Despite this, David tries to make her feel comfortable, and though it’s obvious she wants to leave, he asks her to stay the night. Throughout the evening, Melanie is tense and jumpy. Catching up to her, he invites her to his apartment, where he offers her wine and dinner. The next time he visits, she tells him she’s leaving the brothel to take care of her ailing mother, and when he calls her several weeks later after tracking down her phone number, she yells at him for “harassing” her and “demands” that he never speak to her again.Īround this time, David is walking on campus when he comes upon Melanie Isaacs, a beautiful twenty-year-old student who is in his Romantic poetry class. His dynamic with her soon changes after he accidentally encounters her and her two sons in public, an experience that introduces a strange element to their transactional relationship. After having been married twice, he likes Soraya’s straightforward company, which is contained to one night at a time. He has other ways of attaining pleasure, though, like visiting a prostitute named Soraya every Thursday night. However, he’s still allowed to conduct one course of his own choosing, so he leads a class on Romantic poetry, though even this hardly gives him satisfaction. Although he used to teach Classics and Modern Languages, he’s now an adjunct professor of Communications, which means he doesn’t care about the topic he teaches. David Lurie is a middle-aged professor in Cape Town, South Africa.
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