Lolita

In class today, we discussed the true nature of this novel and honestly it was like a reality check to me. While reading this book, it's very easy for me to be completely fooled by the way the author tells the story. It's easy for me to fall into this happy world where Lolita just happens to not be 12 years old and Humbert-Humbert is not 25 years older than her. There are moments in the novel that are still baffling to me. For instance, some of the things that Lolita says seem to just fuel the fire. When Humbert-Humbert says that she throws herself at him, obviously it's not the truth, but to me it's very easy to accept it as truth. I feel like possibly, being a young girl, she sees her behavior, as well as his almost natural to an extent. She trusts Humbert-Humbert so maybe she chooses not to see the fact that this behavior is completely and morally wrong. Lolita at some points goes as far as to challenge his and her mothers marriage, saying how pissed her mom would be if she found out that they were lovers. Was this something that she actually said or was it something that he fabricated with his mind? That's one thing that has deffinitely confused me about certain scenes in this novel.