Act 3 and 4; Including Gardner

I expected the play to turn out in an all around happy ending, I was happy to find that they play concluded much more realistically. In one terministic screen I could see Eliza trying to marry Higgins or Pickering,  but as an ode to woman's suffrage I am glad that she took the alternative route and at least tries to see to her own future. In these last two acts all the characters are made much more round, or set in their ways, but the most important aspect to me was the recognition of who Higgins actually was. In the last act Eliza and Higgins discovers that they are the same in one significant characteristic, their ignorance to change. In the beginning of the book Eliza did not see that her language was decadent and was ignorant of that fact, in the end Higgins was ignorant in his decadent language (although he spoke his curses much more pronounced.)

As for Gardner, I tried to imagine each scene in order to read this play already and at times I even acted out the voices in my head--of which I pulled out every stereotyped cultural voice I thought possible. I feel that, just like a novel, the beauty isn't in the words on the page, or even how their used, but the images that they give reference to in our minds. 

For example, the three feathered hat that Eliza shows up with and was stated to not be burnt, recalled to me the images of old women in the front pew of an old Southern Baptist Black church. All of Aristotle's elements are present, including his excluded setting, but our imagination brings it all together. When our imagination is not up to the task, or when the text does not give enough to structure our imagination of a particular object, that is when a text is considered boring, over the top, or just a waste of time.