LolitaThe Lolita Book is a very controversial novel written by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita tells the story of a man, Humbert Humbert, and his total infatuation with a young “nymphet” named Lolita. The book and subsequent film adaptations, particularly Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation and Adrian Lyne's 1997 adaptation, aim to create a feeling of sympathy for the protagonist, Humbert Humbert. Through the use of first person narration, Humbert Humbert is able to manipulate readers with simple inaccuracies, making him an unreliable narrator. The term unreliable narrator was coined by Wayne Booth in Rhetoric of Fiction. Booth defines reliable and unreliable narrator in the following way: "I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks or acts in accordance with the standards of the work (i.e. the author's implicit standards ), unreliable when it doesn't. » (158-59). In other words, when a narrator expresses values ​​and perceptions that deviate strikingly from those of the implied author, he or she is considered unreliable. Additionally, once a narrator is deemed unreliable, then that unreliability will be consistent throughout the work, according to Booth (158). When a narrator is unreliable, there is a conflict between the narrator's presentation and the rest of the story, making readers suspect his or her sincerity. There are three sources of unreliability; the narrator's limited knowledge, personal involvement, and questionable morality. When narrators display personal involvement in the story, they describe characters or events subjectively. Finally, if the implied author does not share the moral values ​​of the narrator, then his morals are considered questionable. If they share moral values, then the narrator is in the middle of paper...... asserting his claims of illness. The notion of the unreliable narrator can also be seen in Kubrick's Lolita from 1962. Kubrick plays with the gap between perception and reality in different ways. There is a rather masterful moment where Charlotte, Lolita's mother and recently Humbert's wife, discovers Humbert's true desires by reading his diary. Humbert, believing Charlotte to be upstairs, shouts bald lies at the ceiling while he makes his wife a conciliatory martini. He then receives a phone call telling him that Mrs. Humbert has been hit by a car. The timing is so perfectly set that it also seems ridiculous to us that Charlotte, who was last seen fleeing to her room, could have been killed, but she was. However, Kubrick's film offers an objective view of the events unfolding in the novel by refusing to rely heavily on voiceover..