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Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita to attempt to show a perspective from a psychologically deranged individual who is, in essence, in love with his twelve year-old stepdaughter, Lolita. The story goes from bad to worse as time progresses and as the main character and author Humbert spends more time with Lolita. After the death of his wife, Charlotte, we see his psychological sickness progress. Ultimately, Lolita shows that Humbert is indeed performing bad things, but through Nabokov’s character depth of Humbert, we sympathize with him not because he is bad, but because he is sick. There are two main drives that ignite this story, obsession and denial. Humbert lives his life for necessity. What he needs or wants at that particular moment is what drives him. Possibly affected by Annabel’s death at the early stages of his life, he becomes obsessed with Lolita. He wants and needs Lolita, and that is his only desi