Pygmalion and Galatea and Flower Girl

The Source of the Title: The Legend of Pygmalion and Galatea Shaw took his title from the ancient Greek legend of the famous sculptor named Pygmalion who could find nothing good in women, and, as a result, he resolved to live out his life unmarried. However, he carved a statue out of ivory that was so beautiful and so perfect that he fell in love with his own creation. Indeed, the statue was so perfect that no living being could possibly be its equal. Consequently, at a festival, he prayed to the goddess of love, Aphrodite, that he might have the statue come to life. When he reached home, to his amazement, he found that his wish had been fulfilled, and he proceeded to marry the statue, which he named Galatea
Pygmalion Major Characters:
ELiza
a poor girl who was thrown out by her parents as soon as she was old enough to make a living selling flowers on the street
Eliza Doolittle the same person as Liza; what she begins to be called when she acquires a genteel accent and set of manners under Higgins's tutelage
Henry Higgins a professor of phonetics who takes on Liza as a pupil as a dare, or as an experiment
Colonial Pickering an Englishman who has served in India and written in the field of linguistics there; a perfect gentleman who always treats Liza with utmost kindness
Mrs. Higgins
Henry's mother, who disapproves of her son's wild ways and who takes Liza under her wing
Mrs. Pearce
Higgins's housekeeper; an extremely proper and class-aware lady, she heartily disapproves of the experiment
Freddy
a poor, genteel young man who falls in love with Eliza
Clara
Freddy's sister, who regards Higgins as marriageable
Mrs. Eynsford Hill
Freddy's and Clara's mother
Mr. Doolittle
Liza's father, who amuses Higgins very much; he comes into a fortune after the death of an American millionaire to whom Higgins had recommended him
Act One

Act I Summary
It is raining in Covent Garden at 11:15 p.m. Clara complains that Freddy has not found