Finally I've started reading "Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw. If you were to judge this book by it's cover, (from what I've read so far) it would be exactly what you would think it to be. Pygmalion was a sculptor and king of Cyprus, he sculpted a statue of an elegant women and fell in love with it, and it was brought to life from his prayers to Aphrodite. So far this is what has happened in the book, Mr. Higgins is Pygmalion and Eliza Doolittle is his magnificent  sculpture. Mr. Higgins is my favorite characters, I feel like he is one of those guys who is completely civilized, but is supper nutty on the inside. I also feel like he is a big bully to people and he doesn't really realize it because he scrutinizes people with out understanding it hurts them.

What I don't understand is why the story is so so bland, the plot is very interesting, but the filler or the rest of the story just seems pretty boring  to me. The explanation I would have for it is that the book was written for a very early nineteenth century British audience. The other thing I find confusing is the colonel, he hasn't really done anything in the story so far and he seems to be somewhat of a large character. Really the only thing he has done is talk things over with Higgins on whether it is or isn't the right thing to do.

I was also wondering why is Mr. Higgins so eager to help a random girl on the street, it just seems so peculiar, and although he teaching her how to act like a lady, he is pretty much treating her like dirt, not in ways of how she is living, but how he personally treats her. Thats just not how you treat a lady in the real world, so why treat her that way?