Lolita

A very interesting novel of a young girl who's life is ultimately changed when her mother is killed in a car crash. I found the novel to be pretty intense for what happens to Lolita is very sad and dark.

Humbert the narrator has a sick love for the girl, that fills him and he becomes obsessive with the girl and controlling her. I found it interesting that he did love Lolita, it wasn't just about the sex with her. Though this story could be scene as something very distasteful and disgusting, this story is really about a man who falls in love with an idea, not so much about a girl. Its the ideas of Loltia the he loves. Humbert would go into great detail as how Loltia made him feel just her being around him.

"My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I hitched up the pants of my pajamas, flung the door open: and simultaneously Lolita arrived, in her Sunday frock, stamping, panting, and then she was in my arms, her innocent mouth melting under the ferocious pressure of dark male jaws, my palpitating darling! The next instant I heart her—alive, unraped—clatter downstairs. The motion of fate was resumed. The blond leg was pulled in, the car door was slammed—was re-slammed—and driver Haze at the violent wheel, rubber-red lips writhing in angry, inaudible speech, swung my darling away, while unnoticed by them or Louise, old Miss Opposite, an invalid, feebly but rhythmically waved from her vined verandah.”

Its interesting, because like other erotic novels, I would think that that it would talk more about the bond on the characters together, like equals. My beliefs is that most of this is in Humberts head and that he is really the only one that is maturity enough to really understand what’s going on in the relationship. Lolita is far to young and I think with out her added commentary it makes the story that more creepy.