... earns him respect and power with his peers, such as Phillip Stuckey who says "I have pledged my life to you". As Edward notes the influence of wealth when taking Vivian shopping, "stores aren't nice to people, they"re nice to credit cards". Edward earns Vivian the reverence of the store managers by telling them that he was going "to spend an ... a better life for herself. This aspiration is also shared by Eliza, for even before contemplating the idea to visit Professor Higgins for elocution lessons to become a flower-girl, she returns home to her squalid lodgings, "dreaming and planning...

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