Using this argument the reader comes to believe that he sick so he can't really be held responsible for his actions. As the events unfold and his actions get progressively worse it seems to the reader that he can't help himself so the reader kind of excuses him and his actions. .

             Another thing that Humbert blames in order to get the reader to sympathize with him is society. He tries to say that the fact that he has sex with a little girl is only wrong by the standards set by the society that he lives in. He says, "I found myself maturing amid a civilization which allows a man of twenty-five to court a girl of sixteen but not of twelve" (20). His idea is that if two people are in "love" it shouldn't matter how old they are, they should be able to do what they want. He also makes the point that this is accepted in other societies, he says, "Marriage and cohabitation before puberty are still not uncommon in certain East Indian provinces. Lepcha old men of eighty copulate with girls of eight and no body minds" (19). According to him he is not a sick pervert or criminal he is merely a victim of societies strict standards and conventions. He gets the reader to sympathize with him by playing this true love vs. an oppressive society angle because many people find themselves seeing his actions merely as him standing up for his beliefs and not letting society oppress him. .

             Finally and most importantly he blames Lolita for his actions. He makes it seem that he was a naive victim and that it was her controlling him all along. Fist of all there is theory about how Lolita is not really a child but a nymphet, he says (about nymphets), "they reveal their true nature which is not human but nymphic (that is demonic)" (16). He then says about Lolita after having sex with her for the first time that her body was "the body of some immortal demon disguised as a child" (139). He tries to make it seem like it is she who sucks him in and forces him to do all those things to her.