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mary37
mary37
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High School - 9th Grade

What action or decision on the part of Liza shows that she is quite different from the helpless flower girl who appeared at the beginning of the play?

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Posted by mary37 on Thursday October 9, 2008 at 8:06 PM and tagged with change, characters, liza, pygmalion.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    For the most extreme difference, look at the ending:

    LIZA: Then I shall not see you again, Professor. Good bye. [She goes to the door].
    MRS. HIGGINS: [coming to Higgins] Good-bye, dear.
    HIGGINS: Good-bye, mother. [He is about to kiss her, when he recollects something]. Oh, by the way, Eliza, order a ham and a Stilton cheese, will you? And buy me a pair of reindeer gloves, number eights, and a tie to match that new suit of mine, at Eale & Binman's. You can choose the color. [His cheerful, careless, vigorous voice shows that he is incorrigible].
    LIZA: [disdainfully] Buy them yourself. [She sweeps out].
    Liza tells Henry off--but in a dignified fashion. She leaves, despite caring more for him than she did when they met. Those are big differences.
    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/pygmalion-text/act-v?start=7

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    Posted by gbeatty on Friday October 10, 2008 at 10:11 AM