"I'm a good girl, I am!"

In the beginning of the play, Henry Higgins and Liza carry on a conversation about Liza’s English, which is extremely poor and puts her place in life one of lower class. During her conversation, she keeps reminding people that she is a good girl, this happens throughout the play. It is as if she is telling them that she is not sleeping with the teacher or anyone else. Henry makes a bet with his friend, Colonel Pickering that they can pass her off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. They speak right in front of Liza as if she isn’t there. It was like two men betting on the finish of a horse race. They took the humanistic quality of Liza away, and made her into a pawn in a game. When Liza shows up at Henry’s house, she makes sure she lets them know that she came by cab, as if to say “

While I really feel that Liza marries the right person, I can understand the other ending to the story. Even though there is a strong love attraction between them, neither can meet the needs of the other. Those who love strongly know when its time to let go. That bond is what will keep them being very good friends…forever.

that he picked her up out of the gutter and that her roots are steeped in poverty. The rich always feel that it matters who one’s ancestors are in determining what class they should put a person in. When Liza wins the bet for Henry, she is then left to wonder what will happen to her next. She can not go back to selling flowers on the street as she would not be welcomed there because she is no longer “one of them.” She can not stay with Henry because he does not want her in the way she needs to be wanted. She is left in a state of confusion as to where she belongs. In Act V, Higgins tells Liza, “If you cant stand the coldness of my sort of life, and the strain of it, go back to the gutter.” Liza answers back that he is a cruel tyrant, she is always in the wrong according to him and that he is nothing but a big bully. She declares, “I’ll marry Freddy, I will, as soon as hes able to support me.” This could be Henry’s way of dealing with his feelings, letting Liza know that he can not be the husband that she deserves. He loves her enough to let her go.

Henry likes this idea, again, speaking as if Liza was not there, he comments on how deliciously low and horribly dirty she is. There are very few times in which Henry even recognizes her as

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