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Frances "Frankie" Heck (née Spence) is the main protagonist and the wife of Mike Heck and mother of Axl, Sue, and Brick Heck. She was formerly a car salesperson at Ehlert Motors, but now works as a dental hygienist. She serves as the main character of The Middle, providing voice-over narration for nearly every episode.
She is portrayed by Patricia Heaton.
Personality[]
Frankie Heck portrays a neurotic housewife, struggling in a suburban town in Indiana with mortgage, bills, poverty and an uncooperative family. As a mother, Frankie was seen as lazy and forgetful, and juggling Axl's moodiness, Sue's awkwardness, and Brick's oddities left her exhausted on more than several occasions. Both Mike and Frankie were rarely involved in their children's lives due to their jobs and other modern worries prioritized before getting involved and as such TV practically raised the three of them, causing more dysfunctions into their teen years. Although Frankie is mostly content with the way her family behaves, she does wish her children were more like the Donahues but generally is too lazy and busy to put in time, effort or care to motivate them. She generally wishes her children to get far in life and mostly get out of her house but is not above helicopter parenting or making a bad situation worse when she accidentally comes off as a bad parent in the public view. In spite of her laziness, Frankie has natural and always-right maternal instincts which she treats with her family and as displayed during her job at Elhert's Motors whilst selling a car, in her daily life. However, she got let go from that job in The Second Act, and now works as a dentist's assistant.
History[]
Season 1[]
In "The Jeans", Frankie buys Sue an expensive pair of jeans.
In "The Front Door", she is fed up with Axl's attitude towards her and so as Mike, when he accidentally breaks down the front door, despite the fact that she has been nagging Mike to fix the door hinge for three months, she goes along with Mike to make Axl fix the door.
Season 2[]
In "Homecoming", when she discovers that Sue's first cross-country meet is the same day as the homecoming game, Frankie's dream of escorting Axl across the field is put in jeopardy.
In "Halloween", she tries to get Mike to celebrate Halloween but after many failed attempts she realizes that he has his own way of having fun.
Season 3[]
In "Halloween II", Frankie takes Brick's social skills group trick-or-treating, and decides to prove a point to the youngsters.
Season 4[]
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Season 5[]
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Season 6[]
In "Not Your Brother's Drop Off", she didn't felt sad about Sue's drop off so she pretended, so she can make Sue's drop off the same as Axl's. Mike didn't liked that just like she didn't like him teaching Sue so hard. Frankie continued her roleplay until she had an argument with Mike and he exposed her secret. That made Sue mad at her so Frankie made a nice speech about her life and what she will achieve as an apology, which Sue accepted.
Season 7[]
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Season 8[]
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Season 9[]
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