Sammanfattning av Pygmalion, Act 2

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1. Liza visits Higgins’s laboratory and offers a shilling for lessons that can help her secure flower shop work.
2. Pickering offers to cover the experiment’s costs and challenges Higgins to prepare Liza for an ambassador’s garden party.
3. Mrs. Pearce questions the arrangement, takes Liza to wash, and urges Higgins to improve his own language and habits.
4. Alfred Doolittle arrives, asks for money, and defends his needs against judgments about deserving poverty.
5. Higgins gives Doolittle five pounds, and Liza returns so clean and differently dressed that her father initially fails to recognize her.
6. Doolittle leaves, Liza eagerly goes to try her new clothes, and both men acknowledge the difficulty of their task.

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Liza rejects Higgins’s dismissal of her emotional needs. Her demand for ordinary human respect challenges his treatment of her as material for instruction.

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