Bernard Shaw introduces Eliza Doolittle as a basic, common, low class flower girl with horrible English and horrid manners, a total guttersnipe. However, even so, she is portrayed to be extremely intelligent, has good ear for sound, a good memory, and an intense desire to better herself and her circumstances. She first enters the scene when she is attempting to solicit money from Colonel Pickering, but then she changes her tune. She wishes to adopt middle-class manners, something both her father and Higgins hate, and something which in-and-of-itself will be difficult, simply because Higgins has no manners himself, being a crass and vulgarly mannered man. But, despite her original motive she has a knack for learning, showing a tenacity to
