Yes, Bernard Shaw is a real master of giving impressive and full descriptions of his characters. I am actually perplexed by how the author managed to describe a whole range of different people at once. Along with ladies and gentlemen of the upper class, people from the gutters are depicted so sincerely and elaborately. Speaking about Mr. Doolittle, we can but admire Shaw’s deep insight into the character’s real self. Eliza’s father reproduces monologues which can compete with a real work of art. “I’ve heard all the preachers and all the prime ministers – for I’m a thinking man and game for politics or religion or social reform same as all the other amusements – and I tell you it’s a dog’s life any way you look at it.” The very thing that the author provides this minor character with such cues proves that Shaw wants to reveal the hidden streaks of Mr. Doolittle. This humble man is able to combine plainness with dignity and self-respect. His inner world turns out to be more spacious and complicated than we expected.
In the last acts of the play this character is becoming more peculiar. Mr. Doolittle, who has just got an enormous sum of money, seems to be depressed and angry because his life was altered despite his willing. Shaw is eager to show two contradictory sides of his nature. On the one hand, Mr. Doolittle will never be the same humble man again, he will never have the same simple pleasures in his life such as getting drunk and singing songs loudly late at night. On the other hand, he has no courage to refuse all this money. He is rich and his wealth has become a prison for him. "I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Enry Iggins. Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money." This monologue is a compelling evidence of Shaw's ability to reveal all the sectrets of human nature, to show it from differents points of view. The author lets us see this great variety of traits and feelings of the character and that is an unschooled and splendid talent. Bernard Shaw is a bright storyteller, am I right?

I’d like to speak about the dialogue between Nepommuck and Higgins. That’s the way I get it. The less clever and educated people are, the more pompous their speech is. The dialogue is full of irony, of course. And everything is exaggerated, but still. It IS right. And Shaw laughs at Nepommuck, finding him miserable. “Nepommuck – bowing. Excellency…” It’s disgusting. He’s two-faced, hypocritical and so on. Shaw doesn’t tell us about it directly but he manages to create Nepommuck’s character within one dialogue.
Another scene I’d like to speak about is the dialogue between Mrs Higgins, Mr Higgins and Colonel Pickering. The remark “speaking together” creates the necessary effect of their total admiration of Liza. And parallel constructions like “Talking Eliza. Dressing Eliza. Teaching Eliza.” create a humorous effect and make this scene an emotional up.
So, as we can conclude, Shaw is a sufficient observer.

I do appreciate Bernard Shaw as one of the greatest dramatists. While reading the play “Pygmalion” I always noticed the manner of explaining some things by the author to us, readers, and it made me think how it is possible to show emotional state of the character in a book (I mean not in the acting, in the theatre for example). For instance, speaking just about Eliza Doolittle: after reading her cues (“Ah-oo! Ah-oo! It’s too hot!”, Oh I couldn’t!..I never done such a thing.”, “It would kill me!”, “Boohoo, I won’t!”) you can easily imagine what the girl thinks at this moment, why she behaves in this way, what she feels at that instant. The whole play is full of such scenes. To prove my thoughts I suggest you thinking of the scene, when Eliza was made to have a bath. Just recollect all of her words, her shouting. How accurately the author creates this atmosphere to show us this emotional heat. As I have said, Bernard Shaw is very observant of human nature. He shows everything in detail and that helps readers maybe to understand the feelings of the characters better. And obviously nearly every cue can illustrate this.