Both Moravia's and De Sica's artistic representations of Two Women depict lost purity and innocence, and the subsequent intense suffering of characters confronted with the reality of a world so different from that of their desires, dreams and ideals. ... Furthering the image of Ciociaria as Edenic, when Cesira and Rosetta finally arrive in the country, Cesira describes it, saying, " there was sunshine, there was blue sky, there was the green countryside, composed of all hills covered with vineyards'- (Moravia 36), which is clearly an idyllic description recalling descriptions ...

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