i don't want to be rude or disrespectful to your interests, but why do you like Lolita? i genuinely want to know, because to me its vile.

Oh, love, I know you’re not trying to be and thank you for being so kind about that! But I love Lolita because of Dolores Haze. She is the hero of the story. I also love it (when I say love I mean think of it in a higher sense / think of it in another way than just a book and a film / take so much from it) because I myself have had my own Lolita story as a young girl. Not under the exact same circumstances, but from the older man with a younger girl, or a younger me. I love Lolita because Dolores’s attitude, style and overall dedication to escape, be free and to be who she is and to not be pushed down or around by some crazy nutcase who considers obsession to be a form of true love. I love Lolita, I love Dolores because I can see myself inside of her, inside of who she is and her whole person. Of course others are going to find it vile because it’s about a pedophile taking advantage, kidnapping and sexually abusing a young girl who only wanted a father, her mother back and just a normal life to grow up into adulthood. Dolores was forced to become an adult and to explore a world at too early of an age by someone who should have protected her as a father instead of trying to be a lover and cage her. There is a Dolores among so many of us and I just find the story and film to be captivating because even though it goes so far, it shows us a real light upon the evilness inside of a sick mans mind. It shows us the length of which someone, a young girl, will go to escape and to be allowed to be herself and not be kept down by an obsessed lunatic. Lolita is not a love story. I do not enjoy it for Humbert. I am only there for Dolores. Dolores is the hero. Dolores is the reason I am in awe and will always be.