501 Critical Reading Questions

Critical Reading Questions

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267.
e.
Liza’s reply to Higgins suggests that she wants more respect. She
criticizes him for always turning everything against her, bullying
her, and insulting her. She tells him not to 
be too sure that you have
me under your feet to be trampled on and talked down
(lines 24-25).
Clearly he does not treat her with respect, and as her actions in
the rest of the excerpt reveal, she is determined to get it.
268.
b.
Liza is from the 
gutter
, but she can’t go back there after being with
Higgins and living the life of the scholar, a refined, educated,
upper-class life. Thus the best definition of 
common
here is 
unrefined.
269.