So since I am taking you on a crazy journey. Fasten your sanity safety belt- it's gonna get bumpy.
Who Is Lolita?
What does Lo like?
- Sweets
- Sugary confections
- Dolls
- Trinkets
- Pop music
- Souvenirs
- Trashy magazines
In fact, did she not move from someone nourished by apples to one consumed by an insatiable thirst for all things junk?
So follow my further leap, what is the potato chip strewn bed of the literary world?
I'm sure it is some kind of chick-lit, the kind of thing you can read on a beach. It is the mimetic read, because there isn't that much too it novel. It is stamped with the best seller title on top of it's flashy cover.
What does Lolita do?
We read that way, believing in the message we want to read, never looking for the possibilities of what might be hidden in the text.
How does Lolita manipulate?
We don't do that as readers do we? Yes, we do. We want happy endings we search for messages that speak to us. We get mad when our favorite characters are killed. (Think Misery, Stephen King.
Annie Wilkes: YOU! YOU DIRTY BIRD, HOW COULD YOU!
She can't be dead, MISERY CHASTAIN CANNOT BE DEAD!
I DON'T WANT HER SPIRIT! I WANT HER, AND YOU MURDERED HER!