Pygmalion

Describe the author's tone toward the flower girl throughout act 1.

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The story is told in third person. The author's tone gives us a sense of sympathy for the poor flower girl who has been knocked into the mud by Freddy. We get the sense that Shaw is exposing the power divide between the poor and the rich and is sympathetic to how the poor are treated by the rich. Check out the stage notes when Liza is knocked over. It is a scene that evokes sympathy.

[picking up her scattered flowers and replacing them in the basket] Theres menners f' yer! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad. [She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the lady's right.