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The speaker, Higgins, is singing about how he has grown accustomed to Eliza's presence after taking her in to teach her proper English. He reflects on how her smiles, frowns, moods, and face have become like second nature to him. Though he claims he could easily forget her, he has grown used to her and worries what will become of her after she leaves him. He imagines her struggling in poverty with her husband while still longing for Higgins. The song conveys Higgins' conflicted feelings about Eliza and uncertainty about how to treat her in the future.

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Learning Task Identifying Authors Idea

The speaker, Higgins, is singing about how he has grown accustomed to Eliza's presence after taking her in to teach her proper English. He reflects on how her smiles, frowns, moods, and face have become like second nature to him. Though he claims he could easily forget her, he has grown used to her and worries what will become of her after she leaves him. He imagines her struggling in poverty with her husband while still longing for Higgins. The song conveys Higgins' conflicted feelings about Eliza and uncertainty about how to treat her in the future.

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Read the lyrics of the song from the play Pygmalion to I can see her now, not a penny

a penny in the till,


answer the following questions. And a bill collector beating at the door.
She'll try to teach the things I taught her,
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face And end up selling flowers instead.
Alan Jay Lerner Begging for her bread and water,
Characters: Eliza, Higgins, Clara, Colonel Pickiring, Etc.. While her husband has his breakfast in bed.
In a year, or so, when she's prematurely grey,
[In the street and Higgins is hurrying home in And the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk.
a huff.] She'll come home, and lo, he'll have upped
HIGGINS and run away
Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! With a social-climbing heiress from New York.
I've grown accustomed to her face. Poor Eliza. How simply frightful!
She almost makes the day begin. How humiliating! How delightful!
I've grown accustomed to the tune that How poignant it'll be on that inevitable night
She whistles night and noon. When she hammers on my door in tears and rags.
Her smiles, her frowns, Miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite.
Her ups, her downs Will I take her in or hurl her to the walls?
Are second nature to me now; [Sung]
Like breathing out and breathing in. But I'm so used to hear her say
I was serenely independent and content "Good morning" ev'ry day.
before we met; Her joys, her woes,
Her highs, her lows,
Surely I could always be that way again- Are second nature to me now;
And yet Like breathing out and breathing in.
I'm very grateful she's a woman
I've grown accustomed to her look; And so easy to forget;
Accustomed to her voice; Rather like a habit
Accustomed to her face.
[Spoken] One can always break-
"Marry Freddy." What an infantile idea. What And yet,
a heartless,
wicked, brainless thing to do. But she'll I've grown accustomed to the trace
regret, she'll Of something in the air;
regret it. It's doomed before they even take Accustomed to her face.
the vow!
Give her kindness or the treatment she Questions:
deserves? 1. Who is speaking in this song?
Will I take her back or throw the baggage out? 2. Who is the speaker talking about in this song?
But I'm a most forgiving man; 3. Who do you think is the speaker talking to in this song?
The sort who never could, ever would, 4. What is the tone of the speaker in this song?
Take a position and staunchly never budge. 5. What is the underlying theme of this song?
A most forgiving man. 6. Which of the following lines support the underlying
But, I shall never take her back, theme in item 4?
If she were even crawling on her knees. 7. Which point-of-view is utilized in the writing of the
Let her promise to atone; lyrics?
Let her shiver, let her moan; 8. Without looking at the synopsis of the play, in which
I'll slam the door and let the hell-cat freeze! part of the plot does the character sing this song?
[Spoken] 9. What is the purpose of the text presented above?
"Marry Freddy"-ha! 10. Which among the following elements will you first
[Sung] look for in determining the main idea of a text?
I can see her now, Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill
In a wretched little flat above a store.

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