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* FandomEnragingMisconception:
** Call this book a defense of pedophilia, or, worse, a ''love story'', and/or call Dolores a FilleFatale at your own risk. Many readers are ''extremely'' frustrated by the reputation the book has in pop culture, and will jump on the chance to point out that Humbert is an UnreliableNarrator, and the novel is very clearly ''anti''-pedophilia, with Dolores being a victimized child who bravely endures all sorts of horrible things until she can escape.
** Also, her name is ''Dolores'', not Lolita. Many readers make it a point to only refer to her by her actual name, since "Lolita" is a nickname her abuser came up with.
** Call this book a defense of pedophilia, or, worse, a ''love story'', and/or call Dolores a FilleFatale at your own risk. Many readers are ''extremely'' frustrated by the reputation the book has in pop culture, and will jump on the chance to point out that Humbert is an UnreliableNarrator, and the novel is very clearly ''anti''-pedophilia, with Dolores being a victimized child who bravely endures all sorts of horrible things until she can escape.
** Also, her name is ''Dolores'', not Lolita. Many readers make it a point to only refer to her by her actual name, since "Lolita" is a nickname her abuser came up with.
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*** By extension of this, Dolores Haze as a character is mostly known in broader culture under the name "Lolita", despite the fact that no one in the novel, besides Humbert himself, ever actually calls her that, and it is basically Humbert's attempt at giving his extremely unhealthy and malevolent sexual obsession with her a somewhat cutesy-sounding nickname, as well as his main way of dehumanizing and objectifying her. In fact, Dolores' friends and family for the most part call her "Dolly", "Lo", or "Lola". The fact that the Kubrick adaptation more or less completely AdaptedOut this nuance by having pretty much every character refer to her with "Lolita", is probably the main reason for this.
