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. ... The "neighborhood, the house, the furniture and the personal belongings- (Cottrell13) reflect the characters' natures. ... Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... In his role as a catalyst, ...

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