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TOTW 08/07: Was Alma afraid to confront Ennis after seeing him with Jack?
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 17, 2007, 10:44:07 pm --- "aw, he's from Texas, where they do stuff like that."
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that is absolutely true, we do that kind of stuff here in TX.
I think that Alma was so shocked by what she had seen that she didn't know what to do or say other than ask Ennis to pick up some more cigarettes. That shows you the power of those addictive cigarettes. Nothing in Alma's life experiences would have prepared her for the sight of Ennis kissing a real live Texan! Alma even may have blamed herself, thinking that she wasn't "good enough" for Ennis. Finally, a few years later, I think Alma got the picture and yelled at Ennis what she should have said years sooner: "get out of my house, Ennis del Mar!" for what its worth
mariez:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on June 19, 2008, 08:24:40 pm ---As you can see, Brokeback Mountain, had many parallels to my own life, but most importantly as I watched it (then aged 55), for the first time, I finally realized and understood both the emotions and fears that both my father and mother must have gone through all those years before.
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Your post touched me deeply. Thanks for sharing such personal memories.
Marie
Artiste:
May I say likewise like Marie does that your post is touching !!
Au revoir,
hugs! And we need to think more about issues in Brokeback Mountain movie / Annie's story !!
Sandy:
I think Alma was too shocked to react. She saw something new about her husband, and I don’t think that she would have even, in those few moments, thought about what it meant for him, for her, for her family-I think she was just so astounded and overwhelmed that she didn’t have room for thought (or too many thoughts which didn’t allow her to think of one).
When Ennis came home the next day, and she was sitting at the table, I sensed a calmness about her. She didn’t jump up when he arrived; I think she may well have raised what had happened (depending on how he reacted to her). Of course, he arrived in a flurry, storming impatiently in and leaving like a tornado. When she went to the window to see Jack, she looked like she could kill him in her rage.
Over the years her bitterness grew however I saw her character develop a strength that wasn’t present at the start-she would look at the postcard and still leave it out for him, and she stood up to him when she was in bed. And of course, she was the one who filed for divorce.
I don’t think she planned to bring it up with him at Thanksgiving, but I definitely think it was on the cards.
She had reached security with Monroe, who had clearly wanted to be with her from the beginning. She felt stable and loved, and was in a position of strength, knowing that she was a good wife and mother, that she wasn’t to blame.
I think the words she used are the most telling - she told Ennis not to try and fool her no more, she knew what it meant. She had felt stupid, had felt that Ennis thought she was a fool and wanted him to know that she wasn’t, that she knew. Interestingly enough though, she didn’t mention that she had seen them-only that she had known from the note on the case. I wonder why.
Artiste:
It was more tha shocking Sandy ?
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