Please write a character sketch of Alfred Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. I didn't really get the book.

If one of
Shaw's goals in is to demonstrate that social class is based on nurture
not nature (i.e., education not genetics) another is to illustrate that being middle class is
not all it is cracked up to be. The happy-go-lucky Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father, is the
chief mouthpiece for the freedoms of a working class lifestyle.

When Alfred
first appears, he shows himself to be an inadequate parent out to get what he can from Henry
Higgins even if it means blackmail. Later, we meet this impoverished dustman (garbage man) after
he has been given money by an American philanthropist. This wealthy man, Ezra D. Wannafeller,
bestows a stipend of four thousand pounds a year, a huge income in 1913, on the hapless dustman,
all because of Higgins's joking recommendation.

Alfred is a careless hedonist
who wants to be left alone to have a good time. He has no interest in middle class morality or
taking care of his health and no interest in his relatives. He complains bitterly that now that
he is a respectable middle class man he is forced to marry his partner, go to the doctor for any
and all ailments, and deal with swarms of relatives who are suddenly interested in him due to
his money. He was happier, he says, in his drinking, loafing, ne'er do well former existence in
which nobody cared if he lived or died. Now he feels hemmed in and beset on all sides.

Alfred lives in the moment and puts pleasure first. He is lively, irrepressible, and
outspoken, and doesn't in any way try to hide who and what he really is.