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Lolita In the novel, Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, the setting takes place in New England during the 1950’s. The protagonist is a man named Humbert Humbert who is fifty-four and has infatuations with nymph-like girls. The antagonist is Humbert Humbert’s mental disorders, which lead him to his sick obsession with a twelve-year-old “nymphet” named Lolita. Humbert’s conflict is man versus self because he is constantly dealing with his obsessions and infatuation in …

…as someone to fill her void. “ At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.” (Pg. 142) Lolita is a story full of love, obsession, infatuation, and loneliness. The dark love story makes the reader think about love and relationships and the meaning of love and relationships of other people.