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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I am quite well into it, and find it very disturbing. My interpretation is that her stepfather is a paedophile who married her mother to gain access to the child, as in the case of Lolita, and I find that, and the attitude of her parents, for whom she is just a nuisance when she isn't a weapon, quite dreadful.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but for me it is the only interpretation which makes sense.
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What a shocking coincidence! Nabokov had read the book, so you are not going to say he was inspired by Maisie to creat the world famous Lolita?
I like how Henry James deal with a serious subject with a kind of ironic, but subtle and elegant humour. His metaphors are also charming, especially the metaphor of receptacle for Maisie.