Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita'

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul” The opening lines of ‘Lolita’ directly initiate the reader into the essence of Nabokov’s bewildering novel where an obviously pedophilic protagonist Humbert Humbert narrates his undying love/lust for the questionably innocent twelve year old Dolores Haze, better known as Lolita. Humbert, in his extravagant and flowery description of Lolita, implies the word "nymphet", a term invented by Humbert himself and introduced to the English language by Nabokov in 1955 when the novel was first published, to refer not only to the object of his affection but also to other girls of Lolita’s age and characteristics.
“Nymphic” is adjectival for the noun 'nymph' and the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
Her ordinariness is also a constant source of frustration for Humbert, and she consistently thwarts his attempts to educate her and make her more sophisticated. “Lolita, when she chose, could be a most exasperating brat. I was not really quite prepared for her fits of disorganized boredom, intense and vehement griping, her sprawling, droopy, dopey-eyed style, and what is called goofing off - a kind of diffused clowning which she thought was tough in a boyish hoodlum way. Mentally, I found her to be a disgustingly conventional little girl. Sweet hot jazz, square dancing, gooey fudge sundaes, musicals, movie magazines and so forth - these were the obvious items in her list of beloved things” . Dolores is addicted to popular culture, is convivial and enjoys mingling freely with other people and like most prepubescent girls is a bit of a drama queen. In the quote previously mentioned one can also make the assumption that the part of this child that frustrates Humbert so much is in fact the real Dolores who is a far cry from Humbert’s fantasized darling