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- Humbert Humbert spends two years living and traveling with her after Lolita disappears, though he never loves her and, in fact, is a little embarrassed by her.
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Humbert has never wanted for love. As a young boy, Humbert embarks on a short-lived, unconsummated, and ultimately tragic romance with Annabel Leigh, a prepubescent girl. Since then, he has been obsessed with the particular type of girl Annabel represents.
- Lolita
Lolita attracts the depraved Humbert not because she is...
- Charlotte Haze
Charlotte sees Humbert as the epitome of the world-weary...
- Clare Quilty
Mysterious, manipulative, and utterly corrupt, Quilty is...
- Full Book Summary
Lolita loved Quilty, but he kicked her out when she refused...
- Motifs
Lolita eventually leaves Humbert for Quilty, but her new...
- Context
Take a quiz about the important details and events in of...
- Part Two, Chapters 12–17
Lolita and Humbert act out a version of a more traditional...
- Symbols
The Enchanted Hunters refers to both the hotel where Humbert...
- Lolita
Lolita voices her rather mundane complaints in a definite voice of her own, and the marriage counselor holds out some hope for their relationship after Humbert is released from prison at age eighty-five, by which time he may be mature enough for Lolita.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- 1955
- Summary: Chapter 28
- Summary: Chapter 29
- Summary: Chapter 30
- Summary: Chapter 31
- Summary: Chapter 32
- Summary: Chapter 33
- Analysis
Humbert eagerly anticipates caressing the unconscious Lolita. He claims that he hadn’t planned on taking Lolita’s innocence or purity but merely wanted to fondle her while she slept. He admits that it should have been clear to him then that Lolita and Annabel were not the same, and that if he had known what pain and trouble would follow, he would h...
Humbert returns to the hotel room to find Lolita half awake. He climbs into bed with her but doesn’t make any advances. Anxious and excited, Humbert stays awake all night. In the morning, Lolita wakes up and nuzzles him as he feigns sleep. She asks him if he ever had sex as a youth. When Humbert says no, Lolita has sex with him. Humbert states that...
Humbert launches into a dreamy description of how he would repaint the Enchanted Hunters hotel in order to make the setting of his first encounter with Lolita a more natural, romantic one.
Humbert once again defends his actions as natural, using history as evidence. He notes that according to an old magazine in the prison library, a girl from the more temperate climates of America becomes mature in her twelfth year. He further reminds the reader, whom he calls his jury, that he wasn’t even Lolita’s first lover.
Lolita recounts her first sexual experiences. Astonished by Humbert’s naïveté, she tells him that many of her friends have already experimented sexually with one another. At summer camp, she used to stand guard while her friend Barbara and Charlie, the camp-mistress’s son, copulated in the bushes. Soon, Lolita’s curiosity led her to have sex with C...
Humbert buys Lolita many things in the town of Lepingville. In the hotel, they have separate rooms, and he can hear Lolita crying. Sometime in the night, she creeps into his bed because, as Humbert says, she has nowhere else to go.
As Humbert and Lolita’s relationship transforms into a blatantly sexual one, Humbert’s demonstrated duplicity and seductive skill with language should make us question whether we can fully trust his description of the affair. In particular, Humbert’s claim that Lolita seduced him, rather than the other way around, seems suspicious. Like many adoles...
According to Humbert, he is downright irresistible, a positive hunk whose "gloomy good looks" always get him the girl, causing Lolita to swoon, Charlotte to love him passionately and possessively, and Jean Farlow to develop a teenage crush. Humbert the Sophisticate. Humbert is not just about looks.
One of the twentieth century’s most controversial novels, Lolita puts readers into the mind of a pedophile and, through Humbert Humbert’s artful account of his relationship with Lolita, challenges assumptions about love and morality.
The narrator of Lolita. Humbert is a highly educated, mentally unstable, literarily gifted European man with an uncontrollable desire for young girls, whom he calls “ nymphets.”. Humbert Humbert is extraordinarily charming, sarcastic, and seductive to both his readers and the other characters.
Lolita’s immediate assumption that Humbert wants sex—and her surprise that he loves her—underscores the difference between Humbert’s fantasy about the relationship between them and the reality of it.
