As a prostitute, accidentally she meets a painter who asks her to stay because he is interested to paint her face. After the painting time, they discuss
everything until the painter knows about her profession. Thinking that Raft speaks negatively about her profession, she begins to feel uncomfortable with it.
Listen, Mr. Hart, I may be a Brazilian, but I’ve lived in Switzerland for nine months now. I’ve learned that the reason the Swiss are so discreet is
because they live in a very small country where almost everyone knows everyone else, as we have just discovered, which is why no one ever asks
what other people do. Your remark was both inappropriate and very rude, but if your aim was to humiliate me in order to make yourself feel better,
you’re wasting your time. Thanks for the anisette, which is disgusting, by the way, but which I will drink to the last drop. I will then smoke a
cigarette, and finally, I’ll get up and leave. But you can leave right now, if you want; we can have famous painters sitting at the same table as a
prostitute. Because that’s what I am, you see prostitute. I’m a prostitute through and through, from head to toe and I don’t care who knows. That’s
my one great virtue: I refuse to deceive myself or you. Because it’s not worth it, because you don’t merit a lie Coelho 103 – 104.
From the text above, it is obvious that Maria is an honest person. It can be seen from her speech and her reaction in responding to everybody. She is not
afraid of giving any direct answer of anything whether it is good or bad.
5. Lonely
Maria is a lonely woman. In her life, Maria always thinks that she is a lonely person. She feels nobody around her. She does not feel comfortable talking
with her mom because her mom cannot give her reasonable explanation in the conversation. Therefore, Maria always feels lonely at home because she has
nobody to talk to in the house. “Now, you’re a young woman.”
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Maria wondered what the connection was between the blood on her legs and her becoming a young woman, but her mother wasn’t able to give her
a satisfactory explanation: She just said that it was normal, and that, from now on, for four or five days a month, she would have to wear something
like a doll’s pillow between her legs Coelho 4.
In her past life, Maria cannot find the Prince of her life. Every time she has a relationship with boy, it always ends in the wrong way and leads to
disappointment. She needs someone to be able to share life together. However, she feels like nobody wants to do that with her. It can be seen from her writing in
her diary that she wants love but it seems that love is just a dream. Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of
the people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to
touch my heart Coelho 16.
Living in Switzerland, she meets a librarian who she thinks she can talk to. She realizes that the woman is as lonely as she is.
Maria became a regular visitor to the library, where she would chat to the woman, who seemed as lonely as she was, ask her to suggest more books
and discuss life and authors-until her money had nearly run out Coelho 50.
In doing her job as a prostitute, Maria is not only working with the body. She also does any consultation with her clients to make them feel better in their
own life. One night she meets an executive who feels lonely. She does not trust the man who is success in his life and still thinking that he is the loneliest person
in the world. She realizes about the fact that she is a lonely person actually. “No, that man wasn’t the loneliest person in the world. Maria knew the loneliest person
on the face of this earth: herself “ Coelho 81.
In conclusion, it is clear that Maria is a beautiful, smart, brave, honest and lonely woman. She can attract men easily by her beautiful looks without being
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