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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I was commenting on this technique of the one-sided narrative and the effect it has on the reader. It would have been an entirely different book had Dolores had her own voice in equal to Humbert. It probably would have made the subject matter significantly less palatable. But I still wondered what she was really thinking because you couldn't rely that everything Humbert said was truthful from her perspective.
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I think it's a given that Humbert's perspective was slanted in his favor. He was after all trying to justify his actions against Lolita and wouldn't be likely to want to paint himself in any worse light than he was. It's human nature. When we do something wrong and get caught at it it's never our fault, but the fault of that person over there or someone else who led us astray.