Lucy Brown Character Analysis

Tiger Brown’s daughter and one of Macheath’s “wives,” though whether her marriage to the man is or ever was legitimate is never revealed. She comes to visit Macheath when he is jailed at the Old Bailey, only to find that Polly Peachum has had the same idea. As she discovers Macheath’s infidelity, she becomes angry and vindictive, but turns her rage onto Polly more than the lover who abandoned her. Eventually, during a private conversation, Lucy and Polly put aside their differences and actually bond over their shared love for Macheath—and their shared frustrations over the ways in which he’s mistreated them. Fiery, clever, and possessive, Lucy resents inhabiting the role of the jilted lover—and yet in spite of her pride, she remains loyal to the slick, charismatic Macheath until the very end.