Absolutely, any public post is fair game for anyone to leave a comment, especialy one as thoughtful and informative as this. :)
I also don't doubt that Higgins was in love with Eliza -- at least, inasmuch as he is capable of loving anyone who is not himself. (There is also a credible reading of Higgins as gay, subtext that Rex Harrison proposed that Alan Lerner make text while My Fair Lady was still in rehearsals. Although Lerner decided not to go that route, that conversation apparently inspired the song "Hymn to Him/Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?"), which, while still subtext, brings the idea much closer to the surface.) As for Eliza, I think she probably thought she might be falling in love with Higgins at first -- at least, that's my reading of "I Could Have Danced All Night." But the shine comes off after the ball, and by the time they have their argument at Mrs. Higgins's house, she's clearly done with him.
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Absolutely, any public post is fair game for anyone to leave a comment, especialy one as thoughtful and informative as this. :)
I also don't doubt that Higgins was in love with Eliza -- at least, inasmuch as he is capable of loving anyone who is not himself. (There is also a credible reading of Higgins as gay, subtext that Rex Harrison proposed that Alan Lerner make text while My Fair Lady was still in rehearsals. Although Lerner decided not to go that route, that conversation apparently inspired the song "Hymn to Him/Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?"), which, while still subtext, brings the idea much closer to the surface.) As for Eliza, I think she probably thought she might be falling in love with Higgins at first -- at least, that's my reading of "I Could Have Danced All Night." But the shine comes off after the ball, and by the time they have their argument at Mrs. Higgins's house, she's clearly done with him.