Who is Maria-nunziata from Difficult Loves and what is their importance? Difficult_Loves English & Literature Maria-nunziata | Difficult Loves

Maria-nunziata is a thirteen-year-old girl on the verge of womanhood. Her name refers to the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, which symbolizes her innocence, since Maria-nunziata has had a strict Catholic upbringing and is not really aware of life outside the Catholic Church. She is a poor peasant, one of fifteen children, and she works as a kitchen maid at an estate, washing dishes and serving food. She is still skinny from childhood, but she is filling out with puberty, and she accentuates this by wearing high heels, even though they hurt her feet. She fantasizes about the day when she can wear lipstick, but she does not seem to understand all that this implies.