Humbert is a creep and absolutely the bad guy. The genius is that he's also a sympathetic character and the reader is forced to struggle with that. Very few wor

Humbert is a creep and absolutely the bad guy. The genius is that he's also a sympathetic character and the reader is forced to struggle with that. Very few works are able to do this so well. It's the reason why it's a masterpiece as well as why it's so uncomfortable.