Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Lolita, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Perversity, Obsession, and Art
Suburbia and American Consumer Culture
Exile, Homelessness and Road Narratives
Life and Literary Representation
Women, Innocence, and Male Fantasy
Patterns, Memory and Fate
Summary
Analysis
Lolita is shocked at the news of her mother's death. To calm her down, Humbert Humbert buys Lolita toys, clothes and baubles. She and he take separate rooms at the local motel, but she comes into his room late in the night for comfort. Humbert notes with satisfaction that “she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”
