A mysterious man with a notebook finds a friend.

     I have to say. I have actually enjoyed Pygmalion so far. I find it entertaining, i guess. I also wish I had the ability to tell where people were from just from the way they talk. I have to say that would be pretty cool. I really didn't get what would happen from the beginning of the first act. I never expected that Higgins was really a Professor. I just thought that he was some guy writing in a notebook. I really thought that the main characters would be the mother and daughter, but surprise it's not! Who knew. Plus the fact that while reading, it is storming outside so the rain at the beginning fit. Anyway, back to Pygmalion.
     In the encounter in the church, during the rain storm, the fact that it ended up that the two men that were looking for each other were both there and brought together by Eliza. I can't help to find that a coincidence that one man is back from India to see another and the other about to leave for India to see him, when Wham! Here they both are after the previous events they are just like "Hey, here you are I was coming to see you." "Really me too." Yea like that really happens.. Anyway off my rant about legit and logical reasoning. I really could not make any sense of what Liza said while in the church, it just seemed like babbling. I guess that is what Bernard Shaw was going for. Liza, indeed, does need speech and grammar coaching or tutoring. Higgins and Pickering really have there work cut out for them. Earlier in Act 2 did Pickering say that Higgins could beat his 24 vowel sounds with 130? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? That is a lot of vowels. Just thought that I should point that out.
     I was laughing so hard when Alfred Doolittle showed up. Just after they get done asking Liza about her parents or her being married he comes out of no where. That and the fact that Liza told them that she was thrown out and she had to find a way to make her own living. Doolittles' character is what made me laugh the most. Not only is he a slacker and doesn't do his own trade, but his name fits him. Doolittle.. Do little... makes perfect sense to me especially sense he does little to get by. When he finally comes out and offers to "sell" his daughter, he goes about it in a strange way. He says that she is worth five pounds, but won't take ten for her when he is offered. Higgins and Pickering both know that the money will be a waste, but Doolittle says "Don't you be afraid that I'll save it and spare it and live idle on it. There wont be a penny left by Monday"(Shaw 48). This was funny because the first time I read it I read that he would save it and spare it and live idle on it, but turned around stating that it would all be gone by Monday. Of course after re reading it i read it right but I still found it funny.