The Pygmalion part 1

     I've recently finished reading the first half of Pygmalion, and even though normally with books I have to read for school I have to force myself to read them, but with the Pygmalion I've sincerely enjoyed reading it. After I began the book and got a sense of what it's about, I wanted to figure out how the title Pygmalion related to the story, so I decided to look it up.
     The Merriam-Webster dictionary said that Pygmalion was a king who makes a statue out of ivory that Aphrodite brought the statue to life for him. This to me was a very clever title, because of how Eliza Doolittle is Higgins ivory statue that he is creating. As he teaches he tries to mold Eliza into what he believes to be a lady who could pass as a duchess, he is also in my head, creating his ideal woman.  This makes me wonder if in this story it ends with something happening between Eliza and Higgins. Which I like to hope there is, whenever there’s romance involved I pull a classic teenage girl and find it ten times more enjoyable.
            Another reason I like this book is some of the subtle humor. One of my favorite instances of this is when Higgins takes Eliza to his mother’s house and to see if Eliza could pass as a lady. As Higgins and Pickering are explaining what they’ve done to teach her how to be a lady, they mention have to dress her, when of course his mom jumped to the conclusion that he dresses her  where she has an objection but they don’t even notice that she’s speaking because of how caught up they are in their story. I found this so amusing because it seemed like a typical thing a mom would do to skip over the obvious answer and go straight the one that’s controversial, but it doesn’t even seem to faze him because he’s probably so used to it and he’s so caught up in his story.
            So, so far I’m enjoying The Pygmalion and I’m looking forward to finishing this book.