ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Marionette, Logical Truth, John Updike
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Eliza"s instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her. She knows that higgins does not need her, just as her father did not need her. (119) Galatea never does quite like pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable. (119) Colonel helps set up the flower shop for freddy and eliza. Higgin takes care of eliza but not in a way that eliza wants. British novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and translator. The asiatic professor: [he] had rather the air of a visitant from another world (25, consummate virtuoso of puppetry (24, he had the wistful charm of a japanese flower (26) Lady purple: she was the queen of the night (26; description of the actual puppet, the shameless oriental venus (29-33; persona given her by the. Woman in whom too much life had negated life itself . Woman who squeeze[s men] dry of fortune, hope and dreams .
