At first glance it seems difficult to find similarities between Lolita and The Great Gatsby. Finding similarities between two protagonists, Humbert Humbert and Jay Gatsby, seems like an impossible task, but in reality there is a great factor that connects both characters. Humbert and Gatsby, both, met a girl in the early years of their lives and later tried to conquer these girls, the difference is minor: Jay Gatsby was trying to invade the hearts of the same women, while Humbert was trying to reincarnate Annabel into a girl different but similar. Both protagonists were ready to take truly risky and dangerous actions to get their lovers back. Both tried to idealize the incidents that happened in their youth and did everything to get them back. Even though the situations of the protagonists are different, they both have an early love trauma, which influences their future lives and pushes them to make decisions that they normally would not make due to their obsessions, while Gatsby and Humbert have the possibility of having the women they desire . desired for the short period of time at the end, none of the characters managed to achieve the goal of being loved for who they are. Both characters' obsessions began early in their lives. Young Humbert met Annabel when he was only thirteen, “[they were] madly, awkwardly, shamelessly, anguishedly in love with each other; irremediably,..., because that frenzy of mutual possession could only have been appeased by the soul and flesh of the other; but [they] were there, unable even to mate as slum children would so easily find an opportunity to do” (Nabokov 12). When Annabel and Humbert finally had the opportunity to "prove" their love for each other, they were met by two beachgoers... middle of paper... in a vast gray world, only to have my way with his daughter (Lo, Lola, Lolita)” (Nabokov 70). Although these were just his ideas, he actually married a woman, he felt disgusted even at the thought of having any kind of erotic relationship. He even says with humor that anything sexual could only happen “under torture” (Nabokov 70). He was even thinking of killing Charlotte, but couldn't do it, until Charlotte was accidentally killed by a car and he took Lolita all to himself until Quilty took her from his claws. Gatsby also understands that Daisy is a woman of luxury; He realizes that she is now married and has to put something of value on the scale, something that gets her attention, like a large amount of wealth. Everything Gatsby does has only one reason: to be closer to his Daisy. The house he buys is also “right across the bay” (Fitzgerald 85).