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art exhibition by Anna (amzcostumes on instagram - caption below)

"One of the few times Dolly is quoted directly (if we can trust our narrator not to make words up) it is to say clearly what happened to her, immediately after. She uses the same word late in the book again, reminding her stepfather that having nowhere else to go doesn't mean she can't recognise his abuse for what it is. These days a common critique of 'Lolita' is that Dolly doesn't have a voice. While the book is obviously dominated by Humberts POV that isn't quite true.

"Nabokov dismissed his first draft of the short story that would become 'Lolita' because "the little girl wasn't alive. She hardly spoke." In writing 'Lolita' "little by little I managed to give her some semblance of reality." Dolores Haze speaks, even though much of her voice is taken from her.