 Let's examine different aspects of Mickey's character in the play. Remember Mickey Johnstone is the twin who Mrs Johnstone chooses to keep and look after. Hence, his life and the path that his life takes is far more unfortunate as a result of his working class upbringing than his twin Edward Lyons, okay? So there's lots of different aspects to his character which you can consider as well as different quotes You can attach to those aspects of his character. Now one thing to remember is that especially when he was much younger He's presented as very street wise and mischievous, okay? So he's quite street wise and that's actually something that draws Edward's character, especially when Edward is much younger to him Okay, now this is shown when Mickey introduces Edward of course to swear words, okay? So he states as a young kid, I know loads of words like that ellipsis like the f-word, okay? And Edward is, you know, oh my gosh, I can't believe I've learned these words, okay? So again here, what this is illustrating is that Mickey, he's quite street smart, of course He's a working-class child. He's kind of left his own devices by his mom and is very independent and quite street wise, okay? As opposed to Edward, he's very coddled and very looked after by his mom The other element of how which illustrates just how street wise and mischievous he is especially when he's younger is when he tells Edward our ellipsis, take no notice. We've been caught loads of times by a policeman, okay? So early on he is just very dismissive. Oh, don't worry about the policeman But of course this becomes a real thing when he's much older and he ends up being jailed for seven years, okay? So he's then heavily punished by the law, okay? The other aspect of Mickey's character is we do learn that he's deprived as a result of his Working-class background being raised by a single mom. It doesn't have very much money but also going through a school system that isn't very great in terms of catering to his needs and Ultimately having a job which he ends up being fired from and laid off from, okay? Now the first way that illustrates and Shows how deprived he is is when his mom Mrs. Johnstone herself kind of reflects and wonders whether it was a mistake to not have Just given both Mickey and Edward away. She tells Mickey. You've not had much of a life with me Okay, so this rhetorical question and of course Mickey says no, no, no, no I absolutely love you mom. However, this shows Mrs. Johnstone Recognizes like much like we as the audience recognize that his working-class upbringing has really made him deprived Unlike his twin brother Edward The other quotation which illustrates how deprived he is okay He's also deprived of Freedom when he is sentenced to jail is the quote the jury found him guilty Okay, the hand of the law is much harsher on working-class people than it is on middle and upper-class people and we see this in Mickey's persona the other quotation which illustrates how deprived he is and he ultimately recognizes this is when Mrs. Johnstone reveals to him You you know, I kept you and Edward was adopted and he is Furious because you would have had the life that he really envies that Edward enjoyed he tells his mom Why did you give me away and of course this very dramatic exclamatory sentence shows that he really felt his deprivation And of course also when he tells his mom I could have been him He really envies the lifestyle and the life that Edward had the other aspect of Mickey's character is he does grow resentful The harder life gets for him the older he becomes okay And this is illustrated when he does also show the resentment that he feels for what he sees as Edwards really fortunate upbringing He tells him while no one was looking I grew up and you didn't because you didn't need to okay, and that's true Okay, working working-class children tend to grow up much faster because they're exposed to the world more frequently The parents are not always around maybe the parents are working double triple shifts, right? So they have to kind of cater and fend for themselves They have to get jobs much earlier whilst middle and upper-class children can afford to go to university They have just a bit more of an easier life and an extended childhood Okay, and that's what Mickey is showing and he feels quite resentful towards Edward because of just that background in that difference in background also Mickey states how come you've got everything and I've got nothing okay, and this is especially shown when Mickey after he comes out of Jail and he realises even his own wife Linda is Having an affair with Edward who seems to have everything yet Mickey has nothing and he's very resentful at this difference In class how his life has turned out so differently because his working class whilst Edward being middle class Okay upper middle class his life has panned out so easily for him The other aspect of Mickey's character is that he does He does seem quite an unfortunate character and this obviously makes us feel a lot of pathos for him as The audience now the first quotation which illustrates how unfortunate he is is when we realize he states I can't cope with this especially when he realises that and he's got baby on the way He doesn't have a great paying factory job and then he ends up losing that job anyway Okay, so he is very unfortunate and very overwhelmed but all the responsibilities that come at him very early and very fast in life Okay, then we realize also He's unfortunate because he is fired along with loads of other factory workers for no reason that just purely because of actually No longer need some okay, and he states the started laying people off and of course He also gets laid off the final element of Mickey's characters remember is however in spite of all of this he's a very intensely loyal person and whilst early on both Linda and Edward are quite loyal to him Ultimately, they do become disloyal when they betray him and have an affair behind his back. Okay, Mickey never loses that sense of loyalty That's why it hurts him all that much more when he realises that they were having an affair So this is shown early on when Mickey tells Edward with blood brothers and ellipses will always have to stand by each other Which obviously illustrates that Mickey is an incredibly loyal person may be loyal to a fault, okay So when you're thinking about Mickey's character consider the fact that he's street-wise is quite deprived He's also very resentful of the opportunities that Edward has had in life He's an unfortunate person He highlights the unfortunate plight and the unfortunate struggles of working-class people working-class men and women and We also realize that is a very loyal character