ENIGMA OTILIEI

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Jerkass: Stănică Raţiu is an insufferable, hypocritical, backstabbing, opportunistic moocher and thief who is always listening in at doors, spying, lying and luring people into traps. Blatant Lies: Incredibly, almost everything that comes out of Stănică's mouth is a lie, designed to either make him look better or to extract money or benefits from others. She loves them very much, but she refuses to see their glaring inadequacies, and enables their self-destructive behavior. His Uncle Costake is reluctant to give him any of his money (suggesting that he borrow some) and even”borrows” some money from Felix.

Aglae is jealous that Felix is intellectually gifted enough to study medicine, while her own children have only a high school level education, her own son Titi being mentally deficient.I see Felix more of an introvert; he puts up with everyone's opinion, but does never say what he is thinking of, except to Otilia. Once arrived at the established address, Otilia, the adopted protege of his uncle, invites him at the table where Felix gets to know the other members of the family: Aunt Aglae, uncle Simian and their children Titi, Aurica, Olimpia, bridegroom Stănică Raţiu as well as the old friend of the family Leonida Pascalopol. 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.

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. Felix, curious about the “Marculescu” name mystery, fiind out about the life of Otilia that doesn’t differ too much from him own. She ignores this advice and begins wearing even more garish makeup and walking up and down the boulevard in hopes of attracting attention.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. Enigma ei este insasi feminitatea ei, mereu proaspata, de un magnetism care deformeaza si pe avarul Costache Giurgiuveanu si chiar pe cei mai aprigi dusmani ai ei. When he is seriously thinking about adopting Otilia, he receives a letter (obviously written by Stănică) telling him that if he adopts her, people will think he's actually sleeping with her. 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.He was out hunting in the woods with his son when he slid from the saddle and had a terrible fall which left him unconscious. Felix is soon attracted to Otilia who is, by all accounts, an attractive young woman, a couple of years older than Felix. 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. The second day Otilia shows him around the house, Felix remarking her cheerful ambiance , as well as a letter addressed to her, on the name of “Otilia Marculescu”.

Caracterizarea personajelor: Despre Otilia, autorul spunea: Otilia era eroina mea lirica, proiectia sa in afara, o imagine lunara si feminina".

Karma Houdini: Stănică Rațiu manages to steal the money hidden under Costache Giurgiuveanu's mattress, which causes the latter to die of a heart attack. 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. The novel is a long one – over six hundred pages – and Călinescu tells a full and detailed story of the machinations of the various families, with virtually every family member having serious flaws. Aglae, Costache's own sister, waits for his death day after day, hoping that she gets all his money after that. 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.