Posts Tagged: Lolita

Dr. Humbert and Destitute Dolly Kaitlyn mentioned how Part 2 attacks psychology, and I completely agree.  I felt this most strongly in chapter 1, when H.H. uses Dolores’ natural resistance to being kidnapped and raped against her: “I am not a criminal sexual psychopath taking indecent liberties with a child. The rapist was Charlie Holmes; […]

Nabokov writes with beautiful ambiguity.  He uses words in a way that makes the reader question what she just read and, perhaps, turn back to read it again.  An example of this is seen in Chapter 13 when Humbert apparently masturbates on the couch next to Lolita while she is oblivious to what he is […]