Character List
David Lurie: twice-divorced professor of Communications at Cape Technical University in Cape Town South Africa,fifty-two years old.
Soraya: prostitute that Lurie has visited weekly for over a year.
Melanie Isaacs: student in Lurie's Romantics course who charges a sexual harassament complaint against him after having sex with Lurie.
Lucy: Lurie's daughter who owns a farm and takes care of dogs. Lurie lives with her after he is dismissed from his position at the University.
Bev Shaw: woman who runs the animal shelter and with whom Lurie has an affair.
Bill Shaw: Bev's husband, who sees Davis Lurie as his friend
Petrus: African who works for Lucy
Mr. Isaac: Melanie's father whom Lurie apologizes to after the incident.
Pollux: one of the three South Africans who raped Lucy; Petrus' brother-in-law
Katy: the surviving dog
Elaine Winter: chair of Communications department
Farodia Rassool: Social Studies professor, chair of the committee on discrimination
Aram Hakim: sympathetic member of Melanie's sexual harassment investigation
Rosalind: Lurie's second ex-wife
Evelina: Lucy's biological mother
Teresa Guiccoli: Byron's last mistress before he dies; Byron and Teresa's relationship is the topic of Lurie's opera
Ryan: Melanie's boyfriend
Desiree: Melanie's younger sister
ClassicNote on Disgrace
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