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Mrs Johnstone is a warm and caring mother, despite the struggles she faces supporting her eight children alone. At the start of the play, she describes how difficult her life has been.
Mrs. Johnstone: Impoverished. Mrs. Johnstone and her family live in poverty. This is what forces her to give Edward to Mrs. Lyons. However, she does have a 'happy-go-lucky' attitude, embracing what life throws at her.
Mrs. Johnstone’s unfortunate personal circumstances make it hard for her to be a completely ‘good’ character, but she does care for people over money, as seen when she refuses to take money from Mrs. Lyons on two separate occasions: “I don’t want your money. I’ve made a life out here” (Act Two).
Russell shows the harsh contrast between the impoverished conditions of Mrs. Johnstone’s family with the lavish wealth of Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, introducing the key theme of social class.
Key plot details. 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....
As Act One opens, Mrs. Johnstone laments in song, begging the narrator and audience to “tell me it’s not true.”. The Narrator, meanwhile, introduces the audience to the story of the Johnstone brothers, twins separated at birth, who found out the story of their origins only moments before they died.
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They become firm friends and blood brothers. The boys get in trouble with the police and the Lyons plan to move to the country to get Edward away from the Johnstones. Mrs Johnstone gives Edward a locket before he leaves. The boys are lonely without each other. The Johnstones are rehoused to the country.
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