Humbert worries about her involvement with the school play and with male classmates. Before long, people begin to wonder about the relationship between the father and his over-protected daughter. In the fall, Humbert reports to his position at Beardsley College, and enrolls Lolita in high school there. In public, they act as father and daughter. The two then commence a trip cross country, traveling from hotel to motel. The next day, Humbert confesses to Lolita that her mother is not sick in a hospital, as he had previously told her, but dead. Humbert escapes the man's advances, and, the next morning, Humbert and Lolita play a 'game' she learned at camp, and it is implied that they have a sexual encounter. The stranger implies that he too is a policeman and repeats, too often, that he thinks Humbert is 'normal'. One of the guests, a pushy, abrasive stranger, insinuates himself upon Humbert and keeps steering the conversation to his 'beautiful little daughter', who is asleep upstairs. They stay the night in a hotel that is handling an overflow influx of police officers attending a convention. Humbert arrives to pick up Lolita from camp she does not yet know her mother is dead. In an outburst, she runs outside, but is hit by a car and dies. Charlotte discovers Humbert's diary entries detailing his passion for Lolita and describing Charlotte as 'obnoxious' and 'brainless'. Things turn sour for the couple in the absence of the child: glum Humbert becomes more withdrawn, and Charlotte grows increasingly unfulfilled and upset. Though he roars with laughter while reading the sadly heartfelt yet characteristically overblown letter, Humbert marries Charlotte. The letter says that if Humbert is still in the house when she returns, Charlotte will know her love is requited, and he must marry her. After the Hazes depart for camp, the maid gives Humbert a letter from Charlotte, confessing her love for him and demanding he vacate at once unless he feels the same way. However, Charlotte wants all of Humbert's time for herself and tells him that she will be sending Lolita to an all-girl sleepaway camp for the summer. To be close to Lolita, Humbert accepts Charlotte's offer and becomes a lodger in the Haze household.

He declines until seeing her 12-year-old daughter, Dolores, affectionately nicknamed 'Lolita', with whom he becomes infatuated. He searches for a room to rent, and Charlotte Haze, a cloying, sexually frustrated widow, invites him to stay at her house. 1 on the piano before being shot to death by Humbert 'Hum' Humbert, a middle-aged British professor of French literature.įour years earlier, Humbert arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, intending to spend the summer before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. In a remote mansion, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 3.5.6 Contemplating murder of Charlotte Haze.3.5.3 Humbert's infatuation with 'nymphets' in the novel.3.5.1 Lolita's age, name, feelings and fate.Regardless, the film has since received critical acclaim, and was later nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 35th Academy Awards. Years after its release, Kubrick expressed doubt that he would have attempted to make the film had he fully understood how severe the censorship limitations on it would be. Lolita polarized contemporary critics for its controversial depictions of child sexual abuse. The actress who played Lolita, Sue Lyon, was 14 at the time of filming. Owing to restrictions imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code, the film toned down the most provocative aspects of the novel, sometimes leaving much to the audience's imagination. It stars James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and, as the titular character, Sue Lyon. The film follows Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes sexually infatuated with Dolores Haze (nicknamed 'Lolita'), a young adolescent girl. Lolita is a 1962 psychological comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, who is also credited with writing the screenplay.

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