Why did she hate Humbert so much?
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scndform — 12 years ago(August 19, 2013 06:05 PM)
Quilty was indeed deceptive to Lo. He led her to believe he was going to put her in movies and make her a star- only the movies he intended to put her in were his porn films. Lo went from the frying pan with Humbert right into the fire with Quilty. Although both Humbert and Quilty are guilty of severe abuse Humbert looks like a choir boy compared to Quilty. Quilty cared nothing for Lo except as another one of his porn victims and when she refused to cooperate he threw her into the street like garbage to fend for herself at the age of 14.
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whoiamnow — 12 years ago(September 11, 2013 05:45 PM)
Ok, what I meant to say is that Quilty never claimed to love her. Quilty was never more to her than she was to him- a means. Humbert deception was much worse because he was suppoed to be a loving, caring father.
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scndform — 12 years ago(September 20, 2013 04:29 PM)
Who knows how Lo really felt about either one of them. when she sees Humbert for the last time she seems to have conflicting emotions. She insinuates he and Quilty are both perverts and then tells him Quilty was the only man she was ever really crazy about.Then she apologizes to Hum for "cheating," calls him "Honey" for the first time, (which is a term of endearment) then tries to touch him with something akin to both compassion and caring.
I don't think Lo had reached the point yet where she, herself comprehends how she felt about both men- especially Humbert. Humbert coming into Lo's life as a "father" is really just a technicality. Lo had only known him for a month before she went to camp and he married Charlotte. He was, in all reality, a virtually stranger- which despite marrying her mother doesn't necessarily automatically turn someone into a loving, caring, parent figure or make a young person suddenly view this person as a parent.
I also think Lo's inability to comprehend her feeling's toward Humbert is a literary ploy by Vladimir Nabokov, the author of the novel. Some readers view the character of Humbert as nothing but a vile and despicable wretch yet there are others who have conflicting opinions toward him. If Lo, as one the main characters is unable to come to grips with her feelings toward Humbert it makes it more difficult for some readers to do the same. -
Rowan222 — 12 years ago(October 06, 2013 07:50 AM)
Lets see, molests her, hides the fact that her mother is dead only until after he's had sex with her, drags her around the country, finally settling in a town where noone knows them. keeps her from doing anything a normal teen girl would do.
Indirect abuse? really? He wasnt her dad, and Quilty looked better because she saw him as her escape from him. He repeatdly rapes her over a period of years, using his power over her to keep her with him. I'd have hated him too.
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HalfBloodPrincess1967 — 11 years ago(July 26, 2014 07:07 PM)
THANK YOU!!!
You pretty much said what I wanted to say here! Humbert- Married her mother to be near her, and was indirectly responsible for her death.
- Sexually molested her (in the book he's going to drug her with sleeping pills, then do it.)
- Waits to have sex with her before letting her know her mother was dead, and probably was going to make up some story about that so he would never have to tell her the truth, but she kept pressuring him about calling her, so he blurted out the truth.
- He was jealous, possessive, and wouldn't let her just be a normal kid. Lolita wasn't ready for an adult relationship, much less one like that, and she probably saw Quilty as her only way out of the situation, since in the book it says that she has no other relatives.
AVADA KEDAVRA!!!
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Freddyfan951 — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 08:08 PM)
It explains in the book that Lolita had a long standing infatuation with Quilty before Humbert came along. Humbert actually was a writer who resembled Quilty, so she developed a crush on him. Her and Humbert were both using each other as vicarious proxies for someone else. I doubt she knew he would actually return her feelings ten-fold, she felt violated when it happened and her fantasy was shattered. She was essentially taken away from her home and held hostage by the man she believed killed her mother and destroyed her old life in order to trap her. Her ruined her whole life, she had every reason to hate him and seek escape.
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Little_Tyke — 10 years ago(October 31, 2015 11:39 AM)
Humbert was far too cloying for her. Her initial attraction to him didn't last long once she'd realised what his game was. When she ran up the stairs just before leaving for the boarding school/camp and embraced Humbert, it was just with joy at having a friendly face after her problems with her mother. I don't think she ever had sexual feelings for him. He seduced her from the get-go.