Right from the start the omnivorous reader cannot disregard the exceptional qualities the character he is going to meet: one who is addressed with the words of the common people. Indeed, while he expects to meet a Nun, he is introduced to a “signora”, a lexical choice repeated over and over again, thus creating a climatic suspense, which have to be satisfied. What feeds the curiosity on the part of the intelligent reader is not the Signora’s hierarchic position, but rather her uniqueness: her being different and the fact that everybody knows she is different. Whether if she is a fictional character or not.

In my opinion, therefore, the reader will be annoyed to read about all the info conferring her family: the dynasty she belonged to and the power of her family. Indeed, because of  he have already read 8 chapters of the novel, he cannot have mess the plenty reference of the narrator did when he juxtaposes Aristocracy and power. The intelligent reader is one able to make seance of the strategies of narration realises on to create a reason to go on reading about “La Monaca di Monza”, that’s why even the title of the lady is interesting. Since she isn’t only “La Monaca”, but she is “La Monaca di Monza”, where there are two determines to focus on her peculiarities. “La”, which is a definitely article, that increase her peculiar definition and “di Monza”, the place indeeted by the power of her family, the ones that rules the region, the Spanish ones. The narrator is very great in introducing the character creating a lack of information in a very intelligent way, indeed the Nun’s uniqueness is given through a general reputation but without a specific reputation.

We are reading about the Nun from the point of view of the man of the boat, indeed it’s an indirect presentation. The idea we get of the Nun is flirted by the man’s boat, we don’t read the nun’s words. The strategy used by the narrator in the very first part of the IV chapter is the reputation. The first most important feature of the text is the syntax choice “Signora”, that means lady. Using this word, the man’s boat wants to underline the Nun comes from Aristocracy. Later on the narrator reports the boat’s man words: “she is a nun but not an ordinary one”, highlighting the Nun’s unicness. The narrator adds another mean to this expression with the use of the litotes “she isn’t la Badessa”. Le lexicon choices underline the Boat’s man can’t define the words to describe “la monaca di Monza”, that makes the reader understand she is a complex character.

When he says “è una delle più giovani”, the narrator underlines the Nun hasn’t a particular hierarchic role in the monastery. While the expression “è nella costola di Adamo” makes the reader understand her family has an important social role, her family is very powerful and that justifies the use of the word “Signora”.  The expression “La costola di Adamo” provides to the narrator the occasion to speak about the nationality of the ones that have the power, the Spanish ones.

In particular the use of the strategy of the Nun’s reputation gives the reader information about the 16^th mentality, in which the nobles and the aristocratic are better than normal people.

The idea of the Nun being different from the other nuns, her unicity, is also underlined with the adverb “mai”and in this way the narrator underline even more time the mentality of the 16^th, to which the speaking voice refers also with the boat’s man juxtaposition of effects to some causes. From this causes and effects the listeners of the boat’s man, Lucia and her mother, understand they have to pay attention to the Nun, they have to do what she wants.

After reading the IX chapter the reader can say the Nun is introduced as if the exact opposite of what we expected about a Nun,  she has a strong personality and keeps her promises.