ENIGMA OTILIEI

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Costache not to make any formal adoption procedure and leaves with Pascalopol at his house, leaving Felix surprised and disappointed. De o constructie sigura, cu o intuitie sociala si psihologica de solid realism, de un adevar sufletesc adanc si de nuante sufletesti revelatoare - Enigma Otiliei se claseaza printre operele de intaia mana ale epocii noastre urbane". Love Triangle: Felix is in love with Otilia, who loves him back but ultimately chooses Pascalopol, who is wealthy and completely besotted with her. Iubind luxul, calatoria, muzica si desfoindu-se parca intr-o necurmata feminitate, Otilia ramane intr-o penumbra de mister, in tot romanul.

All for Nothing: Costache's obsession with frugality, getting as much money as possible and his pathological need to have his money close to him ultimately comes to naught: it doesn't help his health and he dies after being robbed by Stănică Raţiu, leaving his adopted daughter in a vulnerable position, leading to her decision to marry a man she doesn't love.Any legal work he gets is either of a very dubious nature or for gullible clients, from whom he takes the money but does little to help. Aglae seems interested in the future of the host’s daughter, in hope she will marry her with Titi, while Felix seems more and more ashamed of Georgeta’s behavior.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. My Beloved Smother: Aglae alternates between coddling her children and tearing at their self-esteem.

Felix on the other side feels more attracted to Otilia which he admires, and with whom he spends more and more time.

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. Never My Fault: Aglae's children all end up ruined in one way or another: Olimpia ends up divorced, a big deal in the 1910s, Aurica is an increasingly desperate old maid and Titi is clearly mentally deficient and most likely destined to remain unmarried and financially dependent on his mother. Her mother died and her step-father never officially adopted her, leaving her social situation uncertain and vulnerable to attack from the Tuleas, especially Aglae and Aurica, who constantly criticize her unfairly and cruelly for everything she does. 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.for the simple motif than it propose only few admirable performances and the novel seems be a pretext for a gallery of characters.

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 Costache to adopt Otilia so she can be his inheritor and not end up thrown out of the house by the Tuleas after Costache's death. Jerkass Woobie: Aurica lives with a smothering, authoritarian mother who drilled into her the idea that her only purpose in life is to marry. 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. Pascalopol feels like he can't keep up with her, and is jealous that Felix's youth enables him to follow Otilia up every tree she wants to climb.One of the many sub-plots concerns her relationship with Pascalopol, her father’s friend and a man of around fifty but also very rich. Change country: -Select- Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.