LolitaThe Book Lolita is a very controversial novel written by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita tells the story of a man, Humbert Humbert, and his utter 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 the reliable and unreliable narrator in the following way: "I have defined a narrator as reliable when he speaks or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (i.e. the author's implicit norms), unreliable when he does not" (158- 59). In other words, when a narrator expresses values ​​and perceptions that diverge strikingly from those of the implied author, he or she is deemed unreliable. Furthermore, once a narrator is deemed unreliable, then this unreliability will be constant 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 narrative, which makes readers suspect his sincerity. There are three sources of unreliability; the narrator's limited knowledge, his personal involvement, and his questionable morals. When narrators show personal involvement in the story, they portray characters or events subjectively. Finally, if the implied author does not share the narrator's moral values, his or her morals are considered questionable. If they share moral values, then the narrator is not… middle of paper… and states his disease claims. The concept of the unreliable narrator can also be seen in Kubrick's 1962 Lolita. There are ways in which Kubrick plays with the gap between perception and reality. There is a truly masterful moment when Charlotte, Lolita's mother and Humbert's recent wife, discovers Humbert's true desires by reading his diary. Humbert, believing that Charlotte is upstairs, shouts lies at the ceiling while making his wife a conciliatory martini. He then receives a phone call informing him that Mrs. Humbert has been hit by a car. The timing is so perfectly set that even to us it seems ridiculous that Charlotte, last seen fleeing to her room, could have been killed, and yet she was. However, Kubrick's film provides an objective view of the events that occur in the novel by refusing to rely heavily on voiceover..