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Mrs. Pearce Monologue from Pygmalion

From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

female · sarcastic · 59 sec

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Yes, sir. Then might I ask you not to come down to breakfast in your dressing-gown, or at any rate not to use it as a napkin to the extent you do, sir. And if you would be so good as not to eat everything off the same plate, and to remember not to put the porridge saucepan out of your hand on the clean tablecloth, it would be a better example to the girl. You know you nearly choked yourself with a fishbone in the jam only last week. HIGGINS I may do these things sometimes in absence of mind; but surely I don’t do them habitually. By the way: my dressing-gown smells most damnably of benzine.

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Mrs. Pearce is addressing Higgins about his inappropriate breakfast habits, expressing her concerns about his behavior and its impact on others.

40s · disgust · power · identity · family · social norms

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