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I read that Nabokov used Lolita to show how America was swallowed by empty consumerism in late 40's/early 50's. How a lot of people were shell-shocked from WWII, and just wanted to settle down in a house with a white picket fence and buy nice things. Lolita is driven by consumerism; she reads every magazine and believes every ad she sees and not just because she is so young. She is very much a product of that time.

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I don't think Humbert would know HOW to love someone, so you and I are just going to have to agree to disagree, there. Of course he is going to have an excuse for every one of his actions, but he is an incredibly unreliable narrator. I know there was a book written from Lolita's point of view, but I have only skimmed it. It might be worth reading, even though Nabokov wasn't the author.

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