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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Pygmalion - Journal Entry 1


Higgins got on my nerves a lot. He obviously cares about no one but himself. The only reason that he agreed to help Eliza was because he would get bragging rights from doing the seemingly impossible. If he wasn’t trying to prove a point, he wouldn’t have even thought about changing Eliza. When Eliza first showed up, he was annoyed and told Ms. Pearce to send her off. Once he thought about how it would help his business if he made a poor girl appear like she was from the upper class, he insisted that she stayed with him. I really didn’t like his character because of how inconsiderate and selfish he was.

One thing I noticed about Eliza was that she was very stubborn. Once she had an opinion on something, nothing could change it. The author made sure that we knew she was stubborn first when she wouldn’t tell how she knew Freddy’s name. I really wanted to know how she knew this too especially because the author made it seem like a big deal from the way Freddy’s mother and Eliza kept bickering about it. She was also being stubborn when she wouldn’t stop crying over nothing and she wouldn’t adjust her old ways to be like the people Higgins was like. She didn’t want to get rid of her clothes or take a bath and she was being a little dramatic about it. Well very dramatic about it.

I wondered why Eliza was being so hesitant about bathing like rich people did. The author said that she had pictures of the high class life cut out from newspapers and magazines on her walls. She envied them in a way but yet she acted like she didn’t want to become like them. Why was this? Was this significant?

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