Saturday, June 23, 2012

Now that I have finished reading Pygmalion I realized how much I don't like this book. The main reason I didn't like it was because the plot was slow and predicable. I also don't like how Eliza treats Mr. Higgins, when he has won his bet it seems that he is pretty much done with teaching Eliza and she acts most ungrateful to him, which is peculiar after everything Higgins did for her.

The part where they (Higgins and  Pickering) took Eliza out to show her off so to speak, was confusing to me it seemed to be over very quickly Higgins won his bet and there wasn't much of Eliza showing off what she had learned. I thought that would have been the climax of the book, but it was an interesting choice on Mr. Shaw's part.

Why has Eliza become so ungrateful that she would marry fFreddy and then she would teach phonetics with who seemed to be his rival, the hairy faced Hungarian. I understand Higgins treated her poorly, but he did make her into a duchess. Back on the marrying Freddy thing, what kind of ending is that to the book/play . I felt like there was more story to come, but it just got cut right off(which is another reason I didn't like this book).

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