Scholarship of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), despite Shaw’s protestations that Eliza and Higgins can never marry, has for a century debated whether the play’s content and structure imply so. A less analysed route to resolving this issue is to more closely consider Eliza’s father, Arthur Doolittle. Some critics read Doolittle as largely a comic diversion meant to ironize her social transformation. Yet the marital question and Alfred Doolittle’s role are integrated strands, for Eliza’s emotions toward Higgins might be better understood as filial ones, as she attempts and fails to find fatherly love and acceptance from Higgins. Doolittle’s character helps establish this daughter–substitute father relationship by his role as an absent and emotionally unavailable parent.

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皮格马利翁的新视角：阿尔弗雷德杜利特尔和亨利希金斯作为缺席（替代）父亲

乔治·伯纳德·肖的《皮格马利翁》（1912 年）的奖学金，尽管肖抗议说伊丽莎和希金斯永远不能结婚，但一个世纪以来一直在争论该剧的内容和结构是否暗示了这一点。解决这个问题的一个较少分析的途径是更仔细地考虑伊丽莎的父亲亚瑟杜利特尔。一些评论家认为杜立特在很大程度上是一种喜剧性的消遣，旨在讽刺她的社会转型。然而，婚姻问题和阿尔弗雷德杜利特尔的角色是一体的，因为伊丽莎对希金斯的情感可能更好地理解为孝顺，因为她试图从希金斯那里找到父爱和接纳，但未能成功。Doolittle 的角色通过他作为缺席和情感上不可用的父母的角色帮助建立了这种女儿 - 替代父亲的关系。