Smart The Description of Maria
“Beauty, my dear, doesn’t last.” With this in mind, she continued to keep her boss at arm’s length, though without putting him off completely, and
this brought her a considerable increase in salary … Coelho 17
In her job as a salsa dancer, for example, she realizes that she works as a slave because she only gets a small amount of money. Therefore, she tries to find
justice by going to Roger’s office and talking about the law which leads her freedom not to work in that club again.
Maria might be young but she was not fool, especially once her Arab lover had told her that Swiss employment laws were very strict and, since the
night club kept back a large part of her salary, she could easily allege that she was being used for slave labor. She went back to Roger’s office, this
time speaking reasonable French, which now include the word ‘lawyer’. She left with few insult and five thousand dollar in compensation-a sum
money beyond her wildest dreams-and all because of that magic word ’lawyer’. Now she was free to spend time with her Arab lover, buy some
presents, take some photos of the snow and go back home in triumph Coelho 44-45.
On the first day working as a prostitute, she reviews everything related to what she has done the whole night with the clients. She is glad that she can pass
through it. She knows what she faces and how to handle it. Therefore she tries to do the best she can do in serving the clients, as life was teaching her-very fast-
that only the strong survive. To be strong, she must be the best, there’s no alternative 73.
As a prostitute, Maria does not always count on her body to satisfy her clients. She realizes that she must serve her clients better than the other.
Therefore, she has to learn more that her clients do not merely need sexual satisfaction but also accompany.
… She sought out self-help books, because her clients nearly asked for her advice. She read studies of the human emotions, because all her clients
were in some kind of emotional pain. Maria was a respectable, rather 30
unusual prostitute, and after six months, she had acquired a large, faithful, very select cliente, thus arousing the envy and jealousy, but also the
admiration of her colleagues Coelho 82.
Also, people, especially in the club where she works, consider her as an intellectual person among all because she always read books about different
subjects. Before it got busy, Maria could always be seen with a book in her hand
and she soon became known as the intellectual of the group. At first, they wanted to know if she was reading a love story, but when they saw that the
books were about dry-as-dust subjects like economics, psychology and recently-farm management, they left her alone to continue her researches
and her note-taking in peace Coelho 170.
From her thought, mannerism and character as seen by another, it can be seen that Maria is smart, she wants to learn everything which leads her into
smartness.