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TOTW 01/08: Do you think Jack was murdered or was it an accident?
pnwDUDE:
Thanks everyone for your nice words (and yes Gary, I do remember and appreciate your welcome here).
Brad (doing my part on a daily basis)
brokebackjack:
We are not supposed to actually KNOW how Jack died. Annie has said on numerous occasions that---as with so much in the entire story--she wants the reader to come to his or her own conclusions.
We are meant to think, to flesh out the bare bones of what she tells us from our own experience. For some, an accident is more tragic, for others the essence of Brokeback Mountain's tragic finale lies in the murder of Jack Twist.
It depends upon who and what WE are.
Me, I believe he was killed. I actually said that to Annie Proulx one day, and she asked ME what I had learned, asked ME how that conclusion had affected ME, asked ME how my perception of Jack's death as a murder had changed ME.
There is no right or wrong answer here.
See what I mean about making us think??
The answer lies within each of us. That is one reason her story is so brilliant.
brokebackjack:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on January 16, 2008, 02:29:56 am ---Artiste, you sure seem to hate Lureen. Why?
--- End quote ---
Some people hate that woman. I don't. I think she is a pretty decent person, ravaged by years with a man who could not love her the way she needed to be loved.
Describing Jack's 'accidental death' to Ennis, realising during that telephone call exactly whom and what Ennis had been to her husband, her mask slipped. She could have been a vicious virago to Ennis...instead she was remarkably generous.
Her tragedy is the tragedy of Brokeback Mountain, which destroyed everyone involved.
brokebackjack:
Yeah, she's a nice lady.
pnwDUDE:
It is not fair to hate Lureen. It was clear to me she didn't know Ennis and Jack had anything going until the telephone conversation with Ennis, then the pieces to the puzzle fell in place. Perhaps more pieces than that of Jacks relationship with Ennis. Who knows.
Lureen thought she met the man of her dreams. Despite her overbearing father, I think she loved Jack (being proud of Jack after dressing down her father at Thanksgiving). No, there is no blame here on Lureen. Even if she knew he was queer, she was the one to get hurt. I can kinda see this, cause I was married to a pretty little gal who could have very well been Lureen. It was me, not her, that was the problem, and I will carry a certain amount of guilt with me to the day I die.
Brad
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