The Donkey Who Carried Mary - The Earlham Bus Incident

Written by Jack Garden and Hannah Wood
Filming by Piece/Maker Productions and Jack Garden
Editing by James Wood
Cast (with Instagram handles): Jack Garden (@jacksgard.en); Susanna Jones (@susanna_does_standup); Hannah Wood (@hannah_elspeth24)

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Jordan functions as the opposite of Daisy Buchanon-she is a fully liberated woman of the 20s. A professional golfer, Jordan has a brief affair with Nick, which seems to go nowhere. Jordan is presented as a dishonest person who will do anything to win, including alleged cheating in a golf tournament. Jordan’s amorality is a bit more cynical than the other West Eggers’; she adopts whatever morals seem to fit her current situation
Jordan’s most important role in the novel is that of a go-between; she introduces Nick to Gatsby, and as Daisy’s close friend, she fills in gaps in Nick’s (and our own) knowledge of Daisy. Fitzgerald (through Nick) refers to Nick’s relationship with Jordan in only the briefest of terms. This seems to serve two functions: to show how shallow relationships in West Egg are, and to provide a cool comparison to the affair between Gatsby and Daisy.