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| Character | Description | Traits |
|---|---|---|
| Humbert Humbert | Humbert Humbert is the novel's unreliable narrator, a European intellectual who has settled in America and become obsessed with a 12-year-old girl. Read More | egotistical, manipulative, immoral, aesthetic |
| Lolita | "Lolita" is the name Humbert Humbert gives to Dolores Haze, the 12-year-old object of Humbert's desire. Read More | lively, intelligent, precocious, vulnerable |
| Charlotte Haze | Lolita's mother and a widow, Charlotte Haze rents a room to Humbert Humbert and later marries him. Read More | conventional, humorless, middle class, widowed |
| Clare Quilty | Often referred to by critics as Humbert's "double," Clare Quilty is a playwright, pervert, and pedophile who shares Humbert's obsession with Lolita. Read More | playwright, pedophile, double |
| Annabel | The childhood sweetheart with whom he tried vainly to have sex, Annabel was Humbert's first and most important "nymphet" until Lolita. | |
| Barbara Burke | Lolita's summer camp friend; she and Lolita take turns experimenting with sex with Charlie Holmes. | |
| Mona Dahl | A friend of Lolita's at Beardsley who also has a role in the play The Enchanted Hunters, Mona helps Lolita by covering for her when Humbert wants to know her whereabouts. | |
| Vivian Darkbloom | Vivian Darkbloom, whose name is an anagram of Vladimir Nabokov, is the coauthor with Clare Quilty of The Enchanted Hunters, the play in which Lolita stars while in high school. | |
| Jean Farlow | A friend of Charlotte's and the wife of John Farlow, Jean is attracted to Humbert and later dies of cancer. | |
| John Farlow | A friend of Humbert's and Charlotte's in Ramsdale, John Farlow is a shy man who takes care of Humbert's estate while Humbert is on the road with Lolita. | |
| Gaston Godin | Another, less important double of Humbert, Gaston Godin is a fellow émigré (and pedophile) who helps Humbert get a job at Beardsley College. | |
| Charlie Holmes | Son of the director of Camp Q, Charlie is a 13-year-old boy with whom Lolita has her first sexual encounter. | |
| Mrs. Holmes | Mrs. Holmes is the director at Camp Q, Lolita's summer camp. | |
| Maximovich | Maximovich is a taxi driver and an ex-colonel in the Russian army; he runs off with Humbert's first wife, Valeria. | |
| Monique | Monique is a French prostitute who initially seems to Humbert like a young "nymphet." | |
| Miss Pratt | Miss Pratt is the headmistress of the Beardsley School for girls who senses something is wrong with Lolita's development and calls Humbert in for a discussion. | |
| Dr. Ivor Quilty | Dr. Ivor Quilty is Clare Quilty's uncle and a dentist in Ramsdale. | |
| John Ray Jr., PhD | The fictional Dr. John Ray is a psychologist and the author of the preface to Lolita. | |
| Rita | A kind, alcoholic, and charming divorcée, Rita is Humbert's constant companion for two years until he leaves her "dead to the world" upon receiving a letter from Lolita. | |
| Dick Schiller | Lolita's husband and the father of her unborn child, Dick Schiller is a kind engineer and veteran who lost some hearing in a war. | |
| Valeria | Humbert's first wife whom he marries in an effort to be normal, Valeria leaves Humbert for a taxi driver, Maximovich. |
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