Lolita-original pg 119-140

Much happens in this brief section of Lolita . It is plenty packed with vital information giving away more information about Lolita as a person, as well as Humbert Humbert and his unusual ways. The reader learns about the tragic accident of Lolita's mother recently and how Humbert decides he should hide this for some reason. Lolita is off at camp and it is now time to pick her up and so Humbert at first hides it by saying she is plainly in the hospital resting. I really don't know why he decided to hide the fact that her mother is dying and why she didn't question more of it or even want to really go visit her mother. One possible explanation for the reason Humbert doesn't want to tell Lolita is just for the pure innocence reason. Humbert wants to keep his nymphet as innocent as possible. Moving on through the section the two of them get a room together and once again Humbert gives her a sleeping pill. Humbert seems to be fascinated by the way she sleeps or something. He never really goes in for the kill but just backs away and watches, almost like teasing himself, its kinda weird. Another thing I noticed is Lolita's different emotions toward Humbert. Sometimes she calls him a "Dirty old man" and seems not to want to have anything to do with him. On the other hand, Humbert describes how "Then she crept into my waiting arms, radiant, relaxed, caressing me with he tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent, twilight, eyes,for all the world, like the cheapest of cheap cuties". Now this could also be Humbert imagining what he wants Lolita to do to him or for him, a lot of what Nabokov writes in Lolita seems to be unclear sometimes. However for me Lolita needs to make up her mind.
Seems like a lot of what Humbert wants is all in his head and that Lolita wants nothing to do with him and is creeped out by the way he acts towards her. Another important point through this reading section is where the narrator mentions,"The whole point is that the old link between the adult world and the child world has been completely severed nowadays by new customs and new laws. Despite my having dabbled in psychiatry and social work, I really knew very little about children". Here we can see how Humbert really has no idea what he really wants from Lolita. He seems to question himself, which is good in a sense he should feel guilty about what he is doing and not make the "jury" have to feel sorry for him and his actions. He is an adult and he should be responsible for his actions just like everyone else. For example when a voice addressed him: "Where the devil did you get her?", "
"Who's the lassie"
"My daughter"
"You-lie-she's not"-
just the fact that Humbert makes a point of this means that he really and other people around him are questioning his abilities and actions. However as this section moves on he goes back to drugging Lolita and wanting and seemingly wanting to take advantage of her. "Some time passed, nothing changed, and I decided I might risk getting a little closer to that lovely and maddening glimmer", still seems here he is teasing himself for some reason, why doesn't he just go for it. The fact that he could want to murder somebody and then not take advantage of a girl just seems like he is insecure as hell.
The reader also infers that Lolita is not so innocent after all. Once she want to camp she lost her virginity to a boy named Charlie. This is important but to me because Humbert should be furious with her and feel like he wants to kill her just like he did when his wife cheated on him. But there is no real evidence I can see that suggests he is very much so upset with her after he finds out. The only thing I can see how Humbert anger shows after he finds this out about Lolita is that at the end he tells her plainly "your mother is dead", without any real remorse or sympathy for her feelings. This could be him taking his anger out on her indirectly. This passage is very important and the reader should realize in such a brief passage a lot of emotions and feelings are flying through both Humbert and Lolita.