Joanna (1968) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Characters
Gordon
(played by Calvin Lockhart) — protagonist
Gordon is Beryl’s brother and Joanna’s next lover. He impregnates Joanna, then, after criminals beat him over a debt, kills one of them in revenge. His conviction for murder and imprisonment leave Joa...
Beryl
(played by Glenna Forster-Jones) — supporting
Beryl is Joanna’s gold-digging friend and Gordon’s sister. She takes up with the wealthy Lord Peter Sanderson and travels with the group to his Moroccan second home, while her brother’s later relation...
Canonical Relationships
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Gordon → Beryl
(Family Brother) — Gordon and Beryl are siblings, connecting Gordon to the social world surrounding the other characters.
The plot explicitly identifies Gordon as Beryl's brother when describing him as Beryl's next romantic partner.
Story Analysis
A sequence of unstable romances develops into pregnancy, violence, imprisonment, and uncertain isolation.
Plot Progression
London's Unsteady Romances
— A naive art student enters Swinging London and begins a romantic fling with her teacher, Hendrik Casson. She later leaves Hendrik for an impoverished man, while Beryl pursues a wealthy relationship.
Moroccan Revelations
— The characters travel to a wealthy man's second home in Morocco. His terminal illness and sponsorship of Hendrik's painting exhibition bring a darker awareness to the romantic setting.
Love And Consequences
— The impoverished lover ends his relationship because the art student continues seeing other men. She then becomes involved with Gordon, Beryl's brother, and becomes pregnant.
Violence And Sentence
— Gordon is beaten by criminals to whom he owes money and retaliates by killing one of them. His murder conviction and imprisonment leave the pregnant art student alone.
