In Shaw’s Pygmalion, the audience is given a story showing two opposite characters: Higgins, the upper-class linguist and Eliza, a lower-class girl selling flowers on the street. To further his social commentary on the classes in England, Shaw creates a setting which shows the complete opposite lives that the two characters live, almost making them foils of the other. An example of this is in our one glimpse of Eliza’s apartment. Her apartment is described to have “a broken pane in the window is mended with paper” (Shaw 26) and “a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth to them” (Shaw 26) which both show how she lives in very little luxury. Her apartment is bare-bones and only contains absolute necessity, which