More Lolita puzzles

More Lolita puzzles:
1. What is the color most frequently associated with Lolita? Red and Pink.

2. If Lolita were a game, what is Humbert's fatal move? Focusing on his endgame with tunnel vision, resulting in him losing Lolita because he can't account for other variables.

3. There are many passages in which Lolita's appearance is compared to that of a boy? How would you interpret this? I think it parallels how young men act out sexual yearnings. Boys assert an aggressive hands on approach to obtaining their sexual instant gratification. Where as Lolita utilizes the same tactic but in more of a seductive manner, and uses the tunnel vision accompanying young men's yearnings to her benefit.

4. Humbert cries out in a strange passage that he fears water above all else. A reference here appears to be to a section from Eliot's The Waste Land - "Death by Water." And the confrontation with Quilty contains a reference to "Gerontion." What do Lolita and "The Waste Land" have in common thematically, if anything? I think the commonality lies in the journey to inevitable disaster. The Waste Land is a journey down a river, water symbolizing constantly surrounded by danger and death as a possibility at every moment. Similarly Humbert's journey is constantly in fear of being caught, which is how he's constantly surrounded by 'water'.

5. A "swoon" is a way of becoming insensible to reality; and a "haze," mentioned throughout the book, is another state of unawareness. What are other ways of escaping from reality that are important in Lolita? Humbert's tunnel vision is how he escapes daily from the reality of being in danger of getting caught at any moments notice. Also playing the roles of father and daughter create a false reality that comforts Humbert into a false sense of security.

6. The essentially melancholy story has rhapsodic elements to the very end; Appel commented on Humbert's mix of pleasure and sorrow. How are his pleasure and sorrow connected? Humbert's mix of pleasure and sorrow are entwined in every way Humbert experiences any sort of gratification. All the things such as sex with nymphets that give Humbert pleasure are sinful. They all come with consequences that land Humbert and those surrounding him in pain and sorrow.