What is interesting to note is that Humbert claims to be a murderer. Why confess it, especially when so much of the novel is Humbert telling people about his affair with a young girl? Perhaps he feels the need to admit the truth right away and will use his prose to explain and distract the reader from the real atrocity. People often start by telling others something that is bad in nature, then continue to explain so it doesn't seem so bad; Humbert could do the same thing here. By telling us that he is a murderer, and framing the story of his relationship with Dolores as something not bad, he could also be trying to explain the murder as something similar to his relationship with Dolores: simultaneously telling readers the truth of his actions and making them think it is not harmful. However, his imaginative prose frames his rhetoric. He uses a lot of details to distract readers from the actions he commits. “It seemed to me that I had taken off my clothes and slipped into my pajamas with the kind of fantastic instantaneousness that is implied when in a film scene the process of change is interrupted” (128). Here he describes himself undressing as he is about to caress Lolita, but uses the art of cinematography to describe it indirectly. Use great images that should