Thread: Literary Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Old 03-09-2013, 03:34 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I wanted to know what was really going on in her mind and how much pain she was enduring as opposed to how Humbert presented various situations to the reader.
Wouldn't that have defeated the purpose though? I mean if we really knew how much she was hurting as a result of Humbert's actions there would go any chance of our being able to listen to his story. And it is a story told from his viewpoint so any empathy or whatever we feel towards him would be lost or tainted. We can't condone what he does, but we do listen to him as he tells the tale.
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