Discuss setting. Why does Shaw associate Freddy with cabs twice in the play? When she leaves with Freddy in a cab, what is Eliza demonstrating?

Eliza is demonstrating that she has moved up in the world. Taxi's were meant for people with money and social status. At the start of the play, a wealthy woman, her daughter and her son were trying to catch a taxi as Eliza watched knowing this is out of her reach. Much later in the play, Eliza has been taught how to speak and act 'like a lady,' she is insulted when it is suggested that she walk, '...Walk! Not bloody likely... I am going in a taxi.'