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Analysis. Although Mrs Johnstone is at a relatively young age, she already has too many children to be able to support. Her difficult life has taken its toll on her physical appearance,...
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.
Mrs. Johnstone is also described, on several occasions, as looking much older than she actually is. This suggests that her hard life has taken its toll on her physical appearance: “She is aged thirty but looks more like fifty” (Act One).
Mrs Johnstone is 30 years old at the start of the play, “but looks more like fifty”, and she sings a song about her good-for-nothing husband, telling the story of their failed marriage.
By having her tell us that she looks older than her years, we accept that the actor is older than Mrs Johnstone at the start of the play. This brings us to the point at which the action of the play begins. She has got seven children by now and is nearing the end of another pregnancy.
Mrs. Johnstone, a thirty-year-old woman who looks far older than her years, sings about her deadbeat husband. She remembers the days of their courtship, when he flattered her by saying that she was “sexier than Marilyn Monroe ,” and took her dancing.
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25 years old at the start of the play and has already had seven children. Refuses Mrs Lyons’ attempts to bribe her showing that she values people above money; Does agree under extreme pressure to give Mrs Lyons one of her children. Superstitious "shoes on the table" sign of bad luck.
