Dolores Haze

Dolores Haze (known variously as Lo, Lola, Dolly, affectionately as Lolita, and later as Dolores Schiller) is the primary love interest, and victim, of Humbert Humbert.

Biography
Lo was born to a young mother & an older father, who died before she reached her third birthday. When she was twelve years old, Humbert Humbert stayed with her & her mother for one summer, & she quickly becomes the object of Humbert's sexual feelings. After one encounter where Lolita sits on Humbert's knee, he ends up ejaculating, but Lo doesn't notice. When Charlotte Haze sends Lo to a summer camp, she kisses Humbert on her way out, & begins an affair with the nymphomaniac. Humbert marries Charlotte, but after her death, he takes custody of Lolita & they start a cross country trip across the US. They eventually settle in the college town of Beardsley, where Humbert takes a teaching job and Lo begins attending an all-girls Catholic school. However, Lo's increasing boredom with Humbert, combined with her growing desire for independence, fuels a constant tension between them that eventually leads to a fight between them. Humbert's affection for Lo is also rivaled by another man, playwright Clare Quilty, who has been pursuing Lo since the beginning of the pair's travels. Lo eventually escapes with Quilty, and Humbert's search for them is unsuccessful, especially as he doesn't know Quilty's name. Three years later, Humbert receives a letter from Lo asking for money. Humbert visits Lo, who is now married to Richard Schiller and pregnant. Humbert asks her to run away with him, but she refuses. He relents and gives her a substantial amount of money. Lo also reveals to Humbert how Quilty actually tracked young girls and took them to Pavor Manor, his home in Parkington, to exploit them for child pornography. Quilty abandoned her after she refused to be in one of his films.Lo dies on Christmas Day from childbirth complications.

Appearance
Lolita is described by Humbert as having, "frail, honey-hued shoulders,[a] silky, supple back, & [a] auburn head full of hair." “I might say her hair is auburn, and her lips as red as licked candy, the lower one prettily plump...” Her hair has also been described as “chestnut.” She also has pale-grey eyes (mistaken by her Beardsley teachers as being blue), is about 5'4 (63.5 inches), & is the model Nymphet. “I composed a madrigal to the soot-black lashes of her pale-grey vacant eyes, to the five asymmetrical freckles of her bobbed nose, to the blonde down of her brown limbs...”

Personality
As a young teenager, she is seductive, flirtatious and capricious, with a dirty mouth and a fierce temperament (or that's what Humbert wants her to be. Technically it is in his perspective so she most likely wasn't flirty as he describes her. However, after her mother's death, Lo loses a little of her shine and becomes more unstable, volatile, and a very strong and resilient girl, who makes up for her lack of self-esteem by overcompensating with confidence.

Relationships
Humbert Humbert- Humbert was Lo's childhood crush, as he resembled a movie star she liked & fit her 'strong and silent type'. They had a very manipulative, passionate relationship, but Humbert's possessiveness & neurotic nature, along with him taking advantage of her after her mother's death and continued sexual abuse, causes her to escape him & flee with Quilty. Humbert maintains that he loves her, but Lo makes it clear she does not reciprocate, if she ever had. However, she ends up forgiving him & moving on. It is from this meeting that Humbert realizes he ruined Lo’s childhood by sexually preying on her even though she was years younger than him and was unhappy with his possessiveness and abuse. Charlotte Haze - Charlotte is Dolores' mother; she raised Delores alone and somewhat resents her. It is insinuated that Dolores was an unplanned pregnancy, conceived after her parents honeymoon in Mexico. The two had explosive fights. Charlotte tries to get rid of Lo when her presence gets in the way of her and Humbert's plans. Eventually Charlotte sends her to Summer Camp, planning to send her off to boarding school straight after. Being her only surviving parent, Dolores is heartbroken after her mother’s death. It was also clear Charlotte still loved her daughter, despite the more tumultuous side of their relationship, and was clearly disgusted when she learned Humbert was sexually attracted to Dolores, planning to have him arrested for his lustful plans for her daughter and intending to leave with Dolores afterwards (although this was also because she was humiliated upon learning Humbert was in actuality repulsed by her), but her death got in the way.

Clare Quilty- Clare is said to be the only man Delores was "ever really crazy about." He took her from the hospital & brought her to Pavor Manor, his home in Parkington, to use them in one of his pornographic films. Delores refused to comply, & he threw her out. Delores believes she truly loved him, & states multiple times that she "left willingly" because she was in love with him. Richard Schiller- Richard is Delores' husband, he's the only long term partner she's ever had who wasn't significantly older than her, & he fell in love with her when she was just a waitress trying to get by. The two ended up getting married, & Richard became a handyman. Delores says that Richard is a good, decent man, & she is very excited for her baby to have a good, loving father, although she doesn’t state much about her own feelings for him, since she describes Quilty as the only man she truly loved.

Trivia

 * Lolita loves comic books.
 * She lost her virginity at camp.
 * Dolores has been portrayed by Dominique Swain & Sue Lyon.