David Lurie is a 52 year old man who has been divorced twice and is currently a professor at a local small college. Throughout this portion of the book David is a desperate man for love and sex. He ends up taking one of his students, Melaine Isaacs, out for dinner and tries to charm her. A couple days later David thinks that he needs to end everything with Melaine as quickly as possible so nothing gets any further, but instead he takes her too lunch and they end up having sex.
I think that the characters so far in this book are realistic because it is about someone who is going through real life troubles and is having a though time coping with them. From what I have read the novel might be heading in a weird direction because David Lurie seems like he is doing more harm than good in his life and he shows no signs of being able to get out of them. This novel suggests that people in general have a tough time getting out situations because of bad habits. For example, David Lurie is someone who is desperate for someone to love and just wants anyone, but going back to ways before he was married the first might come back to haunt him. I think this shows that during this time period that people are rushing to much in relationships and they are hurting there future by the actions that they are happening in the present.
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