Charlotte Haze is Lolita’s mother and Humbert’s wife. She always struggled to become highly educated and cultured woman. However, her middle-class roots always affected her life. Charlotte was unable to rise to a higher role than a middle-class housewife. Her relations with Lolita are rather complex. It is she to be blamed for the problem of pedophilia that exists in their family. She stays blind until she finds his diary. Humbert was unable to bring up her aesthetic taste. She stills being an everyday woman. She was a bad mother to Lolita, ignoring has and demonstratively disliking her. Charlotte died in a car accident.
Charlotte Haze in the Essays