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Jerkass Protagonist is not a trope.


* JerkassProtagonist: Van. Nabokov himself called him "horrible."
* TheWoobie: Lucette, hopelessly in love with Van, is overshadowed by her brilliant siblings and seen largely by them as a tag-along pest, except when they callously include her in their games now and then just to to spice things up.

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* JerkassProtagonist: Van. Nabokov himself called him "horrible."
* TheWoobie: Lucette, hopelessly in love with Van, is overshadowed by her brilliant siblings and seen largely by them as a tag-along pest, except when they callously include her in their games now and then just to to spice things up.up.
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* FreudWasRight: Double entendre is everywhere; the most innocuous item has suggestive connotations, such the pupae Ada tends and the grooved troughs used in a game of Scrabble. All this may be satirizing some readers' tendency to see suggestive symbolism everywhere.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are Van and Ada really as brilliant, attractive and superior as they think they are, or are they a pair of insensitive [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] who ruin the lives of anyone else who tries to get close to them? Or both?
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* JerkAssProtagonist: Van. Nabokov himself called him "horrible."

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* JerkAssProtagonist: JerkassProtagonist: Van. Nabokov himself called him "horrible."
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* JerkAssProtagonist: Van. Nabokov himself called him "horrible."
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* FreudWasRight: Double entendre is everywhere; the most innocuous item has suggestive connotations, such the pupae Ada tends and the grooved troughs used in a game of Scrabble. All this may be satirizing some readers' tendency to see suggestive symbolism everywhere.
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* TheWoobie: Lucette, hopelessly in love with Van, is overshadowed by her brilliant siblings and seen largely by them as a tag-along pest, except when they callously include her in their games now and then just to to spice things up.

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