ENIGMA OTILIEI

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To her horror he marries a woman of dubious morals and virtue though it seems that they were only cohabiting and not properly married and the relationship is broken off. Costache agrees and gives him a third of the money, but keeps the rest with him, which allows Stănică to rob him of it, leading to Costache's death. Romanul devine o satira vehementa la adresa burgheziei in care relatiile copii-parinti s-au degradat datorita banului.

The couple do eventually get married when they get the dowry they consider their due – a house – but they neglect their two month old son and he falls out of his cot and dies. Like a romantic person that he is, he falls for it and trusts her, which is bringing him only disappointment because she has left him every time when she promised him otherwise. He never creates anything original, and has a very precise way in which he wants to work and study, becoming frustrated when Felix suggests they try something new. Georgeta had premarital sex, got pregnant and had an abortion, and her reputation was completely ruined. She ignores this advice and begins wearing even more garish makeup and walking up and down the boulevard in hopes of attracting attention.He focuses on his studies despite of being heartbroken and, eventually, he succeeds in being a successful doctor. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Georgeta's step-mother saw her more as a doll to play dress-up with rather than an actual human being and taught her bad habits at a fairly young age, and to top it off she married the man Georgeta was engaged to.

The other members of the Giurgiuveanu family, as well as the Tulea clan, see Otilia as a threat and fear they might miss out on their inheritance because of her. He advises Aurica, in very delicate terms, that men are put off by women who are too desperate to marry, and that she would have better success at finding a partner if she wasn't so fixated on the idea. Iorgu’s restaurant with the occasion of his daughters anniversary, sets by coincidence at the same table Georgets and the general, Stanica, Olimpia, Aglae, Titi, Felix and Mr. Made up twenty chapters, it follows the overlapping lives of different characters: Otilia’s quest for happiness, Felix Sima’s road to success, and the Tulea clan’s pursuit of fortune. He's clearly frustrated and unhappy with the fact that he can't find a wife, as he's not capable of flirting or establishing a relationship the normal way.Awful Wedded Life: Olimpia constantly rejects Stănică's conjugal advances and refuses to have another child with him, which rapidly diminishes his affection for her.

Stanica, through lies and letters addressed to Pascalopol as he wants to commit suicide, manages to obtain some money from everyone and convince Simion to give Olimpia somewhere to live.He spends much of the book scrounging money and when he cannot scrounge it, he is happy to cheat whoever he can. Costache and Pascalopol are a necessity to her, they are those who have seen the world with its good and bad and, I suppose, she finds in them her guide in life.

After his father's death, Felix comes to stay with his uncle, Costache, who turnes out to be a miser, and with Costache's step-daughter, Otilia with whom Felix eventually falls in love with. His uncle and tutor, Costache Giurgiuveanu, is a rapacious old man who lives with his step- daughter Otilia, who in turn studies the piano at the Bucharest Conservatory.

She gets rid of Simion by having him sent to a psychiatric ward, and refuses to even say his name, let alone visit. Stanica meets Felix with Lili, startling Titi which is attracted by the girl, and unable to understand the female attraction towards doctor Sima (Felix). Pascalopol knows Otilia since she was a child, is old enough to be her father and admits to Felix that he is uncertain what is paternal and what is sexual in his affection for her. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.