Mikie Dobrejcak Character Analysis

Mikie is Mike and Mary’s third-born child. He is Dobie and Pauline’s younger brother and the older brother of Agnes. When his mother falls ill, Mikie lives with her and Pauline in the sanitarium, where he grows to be taller than Dobie. He becomes an apprentice machinist in the Westinghouse and upon finishing, gets a job in the steel mill. Mikie then moves to New York, where he develops an interest in photography. He prefers the East Coast to Braddock's dirty, smoky air.