The Myth:

But it chanced that Pygmalion fell to work upon an ivory statue of a maiden, so lovely that it must have moved to envy every breathing creature that came to look upon it. With a happy heart the sculptor wrought day by day, giving it all the beauty of his dreams, until, when the work was completed, he felt powerless to leave it. He was bound to it by the tie of his highest aspiration, his most perfect ideal, his most patient work.

–"Pygmalion and Galatea,”
Josephine Preston Peabody

The Play:

THE NOTE TAKER [whipping out his book] Heavens! what a sound! [He writes; then holds out the book and reads, reproducing her vowels exactly] Ah—ah—ah—ow—ow—ow—oo!

THE FLOWER GIRL [tickled by the performance, and laughing in spite of herself] Garn!

THE NOTE TAKER. You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.

–Pygmalion,
George Bernard Shaw

Read the excerpts. How does the play address the myth’s theme, "Love inspires artists to work”?

The play supports the myth’s theme because the note taker does his work with love.
The play challenges the myth’s theme because the note taker does not do his work with love.
The play challenges the myth’s theme because the note taker is incapable of love.
The play maintains the myth’s theme because the note taker does not love his creations.