ENIGMA OTILIEI

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Love Triangle: Felix is in love with Otilia, who loves him back but ultimately chooses Pascalopol, who is wealthy and completely besotted with her. She places Felix above her and that is why she chooses to leave him, to give him the opportunity to become someone important, although, like a fool that she is, she does not have the ability to perceive him as a person that can love her enough and bring her presents.

Costache has plans with Felix and Otilia, starting to gather construction materials for a house where the who will live after his death. Attention Whore: Aurica wants men to pay attention to her, and she will often complain obsessively about being single and about the plight of unmarried women. Her step-father loves her but is too stingy and easily manipulated to truly be able to provide for her financially, which leaves her dependent on the older, wealthier Pascalopol. Felix has the occasion to meet Weissmann, a faculty colleague that awakens inside him a small passion for poetry. 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.In the house the gossips about the adoption of Otilia becomes more intense after an implication from Aglae. Costache suffers a heart attack, after which the whole Tulea family spends 2 days in the old man’s house completely ignoring him and his illness. Felix is taken into the large sitting-room, where he finds several guests These include Leonida Pascalopol, a rich friend of Costake, and the family of Costake’s sister, Aglae.

The father (Simion), once an adulterer in his youth, is now senile and begins to experience delusions. Costache becomes more and more scared of death, Stanica being a cause of it, thanks to his constant stories about tragedies. Meanwhile, Olimpia and Stanica’s baby, Aurel Rațiu, dies, and his father astonished publics in the newspaper the death, announcing all their relatives, in wish to obtain as much financial help as possible.She did not know anything about sex, and was so scared at being without her mother that she begged her to stay with her on her wedding night. At the beginning of the novel he is arriving in Bucharest with a view to staying with Uncle Costake and his daughter, the eponymous Otilia. Even more noteworthy is his habit of occasionally rocking back and forth, something which is inexplicably encouraged by his mother. 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. It's a high end, ultracentral street in Paris, very close to the Opera, meaning that she is most likely enjoying luxurious accommodations.