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Mickey has to grow up quickly as a teenager. He leaves school in order to get a job and then has to support his new wife Linda after she falls pregnant.
- Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers
The main characters in Blood Brothers are Mickey Johnstone...
- Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers
Although it is Edward who initiates the first conversation between the two brothers at the age of seven, Mickey soon becomes an enthusiastic participant in their conversation. It is Mickey who suggests the two should become ‘blood brothers’: “Do you wanna be my blood brother, Eddie?” (Act One).
Mickey is desperate to support his family and Sammy persuades him to be a lookout while he robs a garage. Sammy shoots someone and they are both arrested. Mickey is jailed for seven years.
Unemployed, Mickey is involved in a crime with one of his brothers, Sammy, and both are sent to prison. Mickey becomes depressed and takes pills to help him cope, which he continues to take after...
Insensitively, Edward asks why Mickey needs a job when he can just get unemployment money. Mickey tells Edward that he doesn’t understand anything, and Edward tries to make amends by offering him money so that they can go out with Linda and celebrate.
In the first half of the show, Mickey appears as a childhood ringleader, and a hero-figure for Eddie, who is in awe of Mickey’s unrestrained energy. We watch as their natural bond unfolds, and as their inhibitions fall away, we notice that they appear more alike.
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Mickey Character Analysis. As the twin that the lower-class Mrs. Johnstone keeps, Mickey has a rough-and-tumble childhood, but at his core he is an honest, sincere, and goodhearted individual (much like his twin brother Edward). Unlike Edward, however, Mickey takes many hard knocks in life, from impregnating his girlfriend (Linda) to getting ...
