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- The pair had a shotgun wedding, after which she quickly became pregnant again. By the time she was twenty-five, Mrs. Johnstone had seven children and was pregnant again.
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Mrs Johnstone starts the play with seven children and is pregnant with her eighth. When she finds out that she is having twins, she panics, which Mrs Lyons takes advantage of.
Mrs. Johnstone Character Analysis. The biological mother of Mickey and Edward (as well as a horde of other children, including Sammy and Donna Marie), Mrs. Johnstone is a deeply superstitious woman who is forever scrambling to get by, but has a good heart and a strong sense of right and wrong.
He flattered her, saying that she was “…sexier than Marilyn Monroe”, who was a very famous film star of the 1950s. There is no mention of a relationship beyond “dancing”, but soon there is an unplanned pregnancy, followed by a quick wedding at a registry office.
Things went downhill, however, when Mrs. Johnstone got pregnant. The pair had a shotgun wedding, after which she quickly became pregnant again. By the time she was twenty-five, Mrs. Johnstone had seven children and was pregnant again.
Mrs Johnstone, a struggling single mother of seven, finds out that she is pregnant with twins. Her employer, Mrs Lyons persuades Mrs Johnstone to give her one of the babies.
The fact that Mrs. Johnstone has so many children obviously adds to her financial burden, and Russell could also be subtly drawing attention to religious attitudes which forbid the use of contraception.
MRS JOHNSTONE:All I had was a cleaning job for a wealthy couple, who had a different set of problems. MRS LYONS:'I couldn't get pregnant.' MRS LYONS:And then I heard Mrs. Johnstone was...
