Dolores Haze

Dolores Schiller (née Haze) is the secondary protagonist of Lolita as the victim of Humbert Humbert. She is portrayed by Sue Lyon in the 1962 film adaption and by Dominique Swain in that of 1997. 
==Profile==
===Appearance===
Dolores is, at age twelve, described by Humbert as having "frail, honey-hued shoulders, [a] silky, supple back, and [an] auburn head full of hair."Her hair is often referred to as "chestnut" in the novel. She has pale-grey eyes, often mistaken as blue. She stands at 4'10" and weighs around 90 pounds, but grows to be 5'4" by the age of fourteen. According to Humbert, she is the model "nymphet", and bears an eerily striking resemblance to his childhood lover, Annabelle. 
By the end of the novel, Dolores, now aged 17, has bloomed into early womanhood and is expecting a child. Her appearance is evidently more careworn and weary, and Humbert describes her as only the "echo of the nymphet from long ago", as well as "pale" and "polluted."
She is perhaps best known for her clothing and hairstyles shown in the 1997 adaptation, which are similar to that of a pin-up girl.
===Personality===
It's quite challenging to pinpoint Dolores's exact, objective personality traits, as she is primarily shown through the lens of her abuser, Humbert Humbert. She is seemingly split into two personas throughout the novel: Dolores, when with family and friends, and "Lolita," when with Humbert. 
"Lolita", although very loved by Humbert, is merely a fragment of the distorted reality that he's created. She's a simple child, sugar-coated in the molasses of eroticism: seductive, foul-mouthed, rebellious, and capricious, with just the right hint of sweetness and romanticism. Lolita provides for Humbert, especially tending to his lingering sexual urges, while maintaining her innocence. Lolita, however, eventually grows frustrated with Humbert's sexual advances and becomes more disobedient and hot-headed than ever before. This behavior could only be a reflection of her feeling trapped and powerless with Humbert, despite his insistence that Lolita is the party in power. 
Meanwhile, Dolores, the true identity of "Lolita", is an innocent, carefree, and spunky child with little to no interest in academics or sophistry. She loves pop culture and comics, as well as mingling with her peers. She often argues with her mother on the basis of avoiding her chores, making bad grades, or simply being a "pest." Humbert deprives Dolores of her sense of self, causing her to become exhausted and lack self-awareness in her later teen years, and it's clear that some of her childlike whimsy remains. Despite this, she appears unable to acknowledge that he or Quilty ever mistreated her. It becomes clear that she only ever truly wanted to find a father figure in Humbert, rather than a lover. Pregnant and married to Richard, she seems hopeful for the future. 
In Latin, the name "Dolores" means "sorrows."
==Biography==
Dolores was born on January 1st, 1935, to a young mother and an older father, who died when she was ten years old. She had one younger brother who died at the age of two and when Dolores was four. When she was twelve years old, Humbert Humbert moved in with her and her mother, with the intention of staying only one summer. She quickly became the object of Humbert's sexual feelings when Lo sat on Humbert's knee and he ejaculated, although unbeknownst to her. Her mother, Charlotte Haze, decides to send her to a summer camp, though she detests the idea. Just before leaving, she kisses Humbert goodbye, thus beginning their affair. 
Humbert marries Charlotte, but she is soon killed. He then takes custody of Dolores, and they embark on their travels 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, where she meets Mona. Lo becomes increasingly bored with Humbert and redirects her interest to playwright Clare Quilty. After intensive planning, Lo eventually escapes with Quilty. Humbert searches for them but is unsuccessful, especially as he doesn't yet know the identity of Lo's "captive." 
Three years later, Humbert receives a letter from Lo asking for money. Humbert visits Lo, who is now pregnant and married to Richard Schiller. 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 that 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 in 1952, a week before her 18th birthday, from childbirth complications. Her baby, a daughter, was stillborn. 
==Relationships==
===Humbert Humbert===
Humbert was Lo's childhood crush, as he resembled a movie star she liked & fit her 'strong and silent type'. The truth is that Humbert is an unreliable narrator who tells the story, and it is unlikely she was ever attracted to him. In the 1997 movie Lo actually accuses Humbert of having murdered her mother after a fight. In the novel, Lo also accuses Humbert of having had something to do with her mother’s death, although that is most likely due to the fact that Lo never actually learned the truth about her mother’s death and just resents Humbert for having kept it from her. The novel makes it specially clear how Lo’s feelings for Humbert are just a way to get to her mother, and as she dies, and after their first time, it is clear how she loses interest and starts feeling repulsed by his advances. They had a very manipulative relationship, but Humbert's possessiveness and neurotic nature, along with him taking advantage of her after her mother's death and continued sexual abuse, causes her to escape him and flee with Quilty. Humbert maintains that he loves her, but Lo makes it clear she does not reciprocate and never she ever had. However, she ends up forgiving him and moving on. It is from this meeting that Humbert realizes he has destroyed Lo’s life by sexually preying on her at the age of just 12. 
===Charlotte Haze===
Charlotte is Dolores's mother; she raised Dolores 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. She was clearly disgusted when she learned that 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). However, her plan never comes to fruition as Charlotte is struck and killed by a car following her argument with Humbert.
===Clare Quilty===
Clare is said to be the only man Dolores was "ever really crazy about." He took her from the hospital and brought her to his home in Parkington, Pavor Manor, to use her in his pornographic films. After Dolores refused to comply, he threw her out. Dolores believes she truly loved him and states multiple times that she "left willingly" because she was in love with him. 
===Richard Schiller===
Richard is Dolores' husband, he's the only long term partner she's ever had who wasn't significantly older than her and he fell in love with her when she was just a waitress trying to get by. The two ended up getting married and Richard became a handyman. Dolores says that Richard is a good, decent man, and she is very excited for her baby to have a good, loving father. However, she doesn’t state much about her own feelings for him and she describes Quilty as the only man she truly loved. 
==Trivia==
*Dolores loves comic books.
*Humbert claims that Dolores had lost her virginity at the camp. But after the first time he rapes her, Dolores complains several times of pain and when questioned, states she had been “a daisy fresh girl” until then. In the movies that might lead one to believe that she had been, in fact, a virgin. But the novel makes clear she used to have sex with Charlie every morning during Summer Camp, and her complaints of pain are due to the fact that Charlie was also a pre-pubescent 13 year old boy, while Humbert was a fully grown man
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