ENIGMA OTILIEI

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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. 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. 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.

Felix notices that, while still conventionally attractive, she no longer has the youthful beauty she had ten years ago. In the end, she gives up on her love for Felix and chooses to marry Pascalopol and run away with him to Paris. 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. In a particularly creepy passage, Costache remembers that his young wife was playing with dolls while pregnant.Felix is soon attracted to Otilia who is, by all accounts, an attractive young woman, a couple of years older than Felix. She Is All Grown Up: At the end of the book, Felix meets up with Pascalopol by accident and he shows him a photo of Otilia. He is mostly ignored by his wife Aglae, who is a tyrannical, smothering woman ruling the lives of her children with an iron fist. Aglae, Costache's own sister, waits for his death day after day, hoping that she gets all his money after that. 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.

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.He also has trouble concentrating, and stops the tutoring session after only half an hour, claiming a headache.