7/1/2023 0 Comments Blood Brothers by Susan ArdenMrs Lyons persuades her to give one of the babies to her, singing about the better quality of life she can offer the child. Mrs Johnstone finds out that she is pregnant with twins and gets upset while at work, wondering how she will cope with two more mouths to feed. They are unable to have children and her husband refuses to adopt, she feels very lonely. Mrs Lyons is a wealthy woman whose husband spends a lot of time away on business. However, at the age of 25 she now has seven children, is pregnant with her eighth, and her husband has left her for another woman.Īlthough she is struggling to support her family on her own, Mrs Johnstone is optimistic that her problems will be over when she starts her new job as a cleaner for Mrs Lyons. She says that her husband would take her dancing and tell her she was as beautiful as Marilyn Monroe. Mrs Johnstone then appears on stage and sings about her life, describing meeting her husband and marrying him after becoming pregnant with their first child, Darren Wayne. This makes the audience question what other factors may be involved in the twins’ deaths. The Narrator’s description of their mother gives us an image of her as heartless, which we quickly find out is not accurate. Willy Russell may want the audience to focus on how the brothers reach their tragic end, rather than focusing on wondering what the end might be.
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