Blood Brothers character analysis

in the beginning of the play, Mrs J is 25 years old and already has 7 children. this suggests that she is naturally a maternal character who cares deeply for her children, even if she struggles to make ends meet. It is suggested that she is an impulsive characted and doesnt really think caefully about spending money, hence why she in so much debt. Despite her knowing that she wont be able to pay for her catalogue items, she gets her items on credit. This could be because she wants her children to have a 'good life' or this could be suggesting that she shows her love by spending money. we can gather that she is a strong and generous character. this is suggested when she refuses Mrs Lyons bribe for her child, showing that she values people over money. although Mrs J is a loving mother, she finds it hard to keep her children undeer sontroll and doesnt discaplin them, causing them to do as they please and cause mischeif on the estate by swearing, valdalising and generally causing bother to other people. it is suggested that she is uneducated by her many superstitions she believes. this also causes her to have a very large lack of interest in weather mickey and sammy are suspended. she is poor and trapped in a life of poverty. this maked it extremley hsrd for her to look after her children and is probably one of the main reasons why she gives eddie away to Mrs Lyons; so he can have a better life. Russell suggests that she is old before her time and has to give up any form of youth to focus on her children.

Mrs L is presented as a lomley housewife who finds it hard to show affection to others due to her cold personality.Her husband spends long periods away form home, leaving her on her own for most of the year. her and her husband are naturally unable to have children. althoigh she is a wealthy woman, she is highly dependant on her buisnessman husband to pay the bills and suort her highend lifestyle. She is presented as a using characted, meaning that once Mrs J had given edward to her, she cut off all ties and didnt want her to work for er anymore, showing that she only used Mrs J for her own gain. 

later on in the play, she is shown to be overcome by all of the superstitions and anxities that she manipulativley used on her childs biological mother. this causes her to become extremley paranoyed and mentally unstaible. 

overall, she is presented as a cold, amnipulative character and only uses people to get what she wants. 

mickey is an excited and happy young boy in act 1, playing games and getting up to mischeif with his older brother sammy. mickey looks up to sammy ans wishes that he could be just like him, feeling the need to always impress him by pulling pranks. later on im the play, this refelects why mickey helps sammy with his crime. At achool, mickey is very  uneducated and is more bothered about getting a job. this is why he takes a factory job, insted of going to university.

mickey finds it hard to show his emotions and extremley hard to express his love for linds. when he eventually asks her out, he finds it difficult to deliver the bad news that he has been made redundant from his job, this could be because he wants to be shown as a strong man who can provide for his family. this could also be why he commits the crime with sammy, to give his wife and child the life he didnt have.  

after mickey comes out of prision, he is  quiet character and has bad depression. he is dependant on pills and also becomes mentally unstaible. this is why he gets a gun and goes to shoot eddie after finding out that he has been having an affair whith his wife.

• Edward is presented by Russell as a friendly, generous character. He searches out Mickey to play with and perhaps naively offers him sweets in an attempt to impress him. He joins in with Mickey and Linda’s games and unselfishly tries to get Mickey to express his love for Linda.

• He is raised in a middle-class home and is educated at a private school. He feels restricted and this is one of the reasons he likes the company of Mickey. He revels in Mickey’s liveliness, bad language and risky games.

• He is shown to be an impulsive character and one who doesn’t think too deeply about the consequences of his actions. This can be seen in the way he rashly mocks the policeman in the first act and has an affair with Linda in the second.

• He seems to lack compassion and does not sympathise with Mickey’s plight. Instead, he tells Mickey to use his dole money to live like a ‘Bohemian’. Later, he arranges for Mickey to have a job, but does so condescendingly by keeping it secret.