 Lena is short for Magdalene and this identifies her with the biblical "harlot restored to purity and elevated to sainthood by repentance and faith".She is also called "Alma" "an Egyptian dancing girl who performs for men's pleasure".Adam Gillon and Raymond Brebach have proposed that Vladimir Nabokov's rejection of Conrad's "souvenir-shop style, and bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist cliches" resulted in Conrad's "Victory" being "one of the principal sources of inspiration" for "Lolita" through what they call "typical Nabakovian reversal."