Doolittle
Opening
Respond in writing to the following questions about what you’ve read in act 5 so far.
- Why had Higgins named Alfred Doolittle as the most original moralist in England in a letter to the philanthropist Ezra D. Wannafeller?
- What effect does that casual reference have on Doolittle’s life?
- To what degree is Higgins’s meddling with their lives responsible for the predicaments Liza and her father face?
Open Notebook
Discuss your responses with your classmates.