He's the One With Wants

H.H. tells his family friends who knew Charlotte well, that he is the real father of Lolita. He plans on taking Lolita on a trip when he picks her up from camp. He would tell her that her mother was in the hospital and that her situation is grave, while they hop from inn to inn together. Eventually he would say that she died. H.H. states that Lola loves him back. He says: "It was she who seduced me." She's the one who said: "You've never done it!" And he responded: "Never." She said: "Well, this is how it works." OH WOW! What a liar! He was married after all to Valerie and Lo's mom! H.H. keeps hinting that Lolita is this whorish child that seduces him and wants him with as much passion as he has. Believe it or not, he says, I was not her first lover. I don't believe in the power of seduction. If you're effected by it that means you want to be affected by it, because you don't fight it. Lust is in all of us; we are humans after all. We crave intimacy whether it's with some one many years our junior, someone of the same sex or anything else. We crave it. But I don't buy this she-seduced-me story that H.H. keeps telling. She's a child. She doesn't know what she wants. She doesn't have a father, she doesn't have a boyfriend and then he comes along and she combines the completely different male figures in her life into one- him. Nobody told her that a lover and a father should be completely different people in her life with different roles. Nobody told her and her childish ways work out in his favour.