Commentary on The Blue Hotel

Jennie Lynn's astute short paper, The Blue Hotel, is about the color blue, that's what you might think, but let me explain what she meant. In fact, I suggest that if you haven't read her paper yet, you should start with reading my commentary here to gain better insight to what she has to say. The last sentence of her first paragraph states,

"In Lolita, red alludes to everything Quilty, everything unhappy; blue to
everything happy, everything Lolita."

This is true, and I thought this sounded familiar, and then I remembered writing something similar to that in my blog, however I deleted that blog because it didn't work with the other things I was talking about. But I'm sure it was something I said in that blog that triggered her paper. I mean blue is my favorite color. According to Wikipedia, "Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange (based on the Munsell colour wheel).[2] The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu." I was just looking through my closet the other day and found that more than half of my clothes are of some shade of blue. I even painted my room blue when I was in high school. I nice deep dark blue that would make me want to sleep in, however I don't sleep in anymore because of school and work. I think I may have mentioned that story to her. And in about the second paragraph Jennie Lynn says,

"Lolita wears blue jeans often. I realize that jeans are common casual wear and
that they are normally blue in color, but Humbert Humbert assigns Lolita’s jeans
a blue with a very different feeling."

Blue jeans really are comfortable and if you refer to what I wrote about the first quote from Jennie Lynn's paper you'll know that my favorite color is blue. She must know too, having written a paper about blue. I think I've seen her wear a blue jean jacket. Blue does happen to be a color choice for my blog color. Perhaps she had been reading my blue blog so much that it helped her to think of the color blue in relation to Lolita. Anyway, blue jeans were such a huge part of my life in high school particularly because they were only cool jeans if they were from the Buckle. And one of the songs I was listening to in high school was More Than a Feeling by Boston. I think I shared this with her after class one day which may have gotten her to think about the feelings one, like Humbert, might have in relation to blue jeans, or the color blue. After re-reading my commentary, and not without pleasure, do I really believe that reading this blog will aide in any first, second, or third reading of Jennie Lynn's insightful paper on the color blue in Lolita.