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TOTW 16/07: Did Alma Jr. know Ennis was gay?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on November 26, 2007, 05:03:05 pm ---In addition to witnessing the post-divorce Jack visit, and the Thanksgiving debacle, the way Junior says to Cassie, "Maybe he's not the marrying kind..." made me think she knew about Ennis.
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I've always thought that was kind of a strange remark. After all, he married her mother and presumably would have stayed married. It was Alma, Sr., who divorced Ennis, not the other way 'round.
tampatalon:
In the kitchen after Thanksgiving dinner,and please excuse my paraphrase, did Alma not say about finding another woman "that me and the girls worry about you." Could this indicate that the town folk of Riverton might be running their gators that Ennis is different. The girls would surely have heard this town gossip and that confirms Ennis's preference?
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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: tampatalon on November 26, 2007, 05:09:15 pm ---In the kitchen after Thanksgiving dinner,and please excuse my paraphrase, did Alma not say about finding another woman "that me and the girls worry about you." Could this indicate that the town folk of Riverton might be running their gators that Ennis is different. The girls would surely have heard this town gossip and that confirms Ennis's preference?
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Close enough. She says he ought to get married again, and that she and the girls worry about him being alone so much.
I've never quite known what to make of Alma's claiming that she worried about her ex-husband.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 26, 2007, 05:12:24 pm ---Close enough. She says he ought to get married again, and that she and the girls worry about him being alone so much.
I've never quite known what to make of Alma's claiming that she worried about her ex-husband.
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I think she still loved him. I think she divorced him because he wasn't going to do the two things a husband should do (in her mind): 1) make babies and 2) support them. I don't think she divorced him because she fell out of love with him.
L
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on November 26, 2007, 05:16:29 pm ---I think she still loved him. I think she divorced him because he wasn't going to do the two things a husband should do (in her mind): 1) make babies and 2) support them. I don't think she divorced him because she fell out of love with him.
L
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I agree with you, Leslie. I don't think she stopped loving him.
I'm finding myself wondering, though, if the remark about him getting married again wasn't a bit of needling. She knew darn well what she was going to bring up, that Ennis didn't go up there with "Jack Nasty" to fish, so I wouldn't be surprised if she also pretty well figured out that Ennis would never marry again.
But this discussion is supposed to be about Alma, Jr. ::)
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