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The shirts and the Dozy Embrace
brokeplex:
contrary to rumor I was too young to have been up on the mountain with the boys in 1963. Yes, today I have some gray hair, yes, I DEMAND a senior disount everywhere I shop, but in June of 1963 I was barely old enough to have started kindegarten. ;D
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on July 06, 2008, 10:25:35 pm ---contrary to rumor I was too young to have been up on the mountain with the boys in 1963. Yes, today I have some gray hair, yes, I DEMAND a senior disount everywhere I shop, but in June of 1963 I was barely old enough to have started kindegarten. ;D
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hehe!!
Lynne:
What a great revelation, Elle. I had never thought about it in just this way before. A perpetual, everlasting, Dozy Embrace. Thanks, Friend.
(and thanks to Amanda for digging up the screen cap showing Ennis' shirt sleeve!)
fernly:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on July 06, 2008, 04:23:11 pm ---great topic and you are absolutely right. the twined shirts were Jack's way of trying to hold on in some substantial physical way to what he felt for Ennis. why did he leave then at OMT's house? what if Mama Twist went on a cleaning rampage and threw them out? 20 years hanging on a nail was a long, long time.
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Sure is a great topic.
Far as Mrs. Twist...maybe what she said to Ennis, that she "kept his room like it was when he was a boy and I think he appreciated it" also, and most importantly, applies to her keeping the shirts safe.
I think she knew to at least some degree what they meant, whether Jack told her in so many words or not, and she was telling Ennis that she knew.
And after he found the shirts he would have understood what she meant.
He made sure that she knew what he'd taken from Jack's room, and believed that she'd give her blessing. All under the angry, and unknowing, stare of OMT.
The shirts would be safe in Lightning Flat. I can't see OMT being bothered to set foot in Jack's room.
I can't see the shirts being safe in Childress, where there was what looked like a lot of decorating (and the inevitable throwing out of 'these old things') that goes along with it.
Brown Eyes:
Yes, the more you watch the Lightning Flat scene the more it seems really clear that Ma Twist knows all about those shirts. When Ennis comes downstairs holding the balled up shirts she even nods at him in a sort of knowing way. And, before he goes upstairs, the little push on Ennis's shoulder and her verbal encouragement to Ennis about going to Jack's room seems very purposeful. Yep, I think she's really, truly hoping that Ennis will find the shirts. And, I think it's her way of trying to make Ennis feel better about OMT's revelation about the "other fellow." I think that helping to prod Ennis along to find the shirts is Ma Twist's silent way of trying to tell Ennis that he was Jack's one true love (regardless of what OMT said).
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