![]() ![]() He is now, as he bitterly complains, a paragon of that same middle-class morality. In the second half of the play, though, the monster who was willing to sell his daughter for a fiver reappears in a silk hat and patent leather shoes. But he asks – and answers – the most penetrating question: “What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.” Where do I come in?” Doolittle is a member of the most despised of all social classes: the undeserving poor. He is not morally outraged – he just wants to be paid: “The girl belongs to me. In George Bernard Shaw’s original play, Pygmalion, he arrives in high dudgeon at the home of Henry Higgins, who has, Doolittle assumes, taken control of his daughter Eliza for sexual purposes. I f you know Alfred Doolittle only from Stanley Holloway’s infinitely lovable portrayal of him in My Fair Lady, you might not realise that he’s a bit of a monster. ![]()
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