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TOTW 20/08: Ennis rejecting people close to him

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MountainMan:
I'm not sure if Ennis believes that he could ever be happy....with Jack or any of the others. So maybe he has a kind of "why bother?" attitude toward relationships. He can't commit to Jack because of the consequences he foresees, and perhaps he simply can't see them succeeding and being happy together. Or he doesn't believe he deserves it.

hmmm. Same thing with the others. Alma, Cassie, etc. But with them it may be that his desire for Jack has ruined his other relationships. Maybe he feels there's no point in trying since he really wants to be with Jack (but won't!) and can't be satisfied with the others.

brokeplex:

--- Quote from: MountainMan on August 03, 2008, 11:12:17 pm ---I'm not sure if Ennis believes that he could ever be happy....with Jack or any of the others. So maybe he has a kind of "why bother?" attitude toward relationships. He can't commit to Jack because of the consequences he foresees, and perhaps he simply can't see them succeeding and being happy together. Or he doesn't believe he deserves it.

hmmm. Same thing with the others. Alma, Cassie, etc. But with them it may be that his desire for Jack has ruined his other relationships. Maybe he feels there's no point in trying since he really wants to be with Jack (but won't!) and can't be satisfied with the others.



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good point, Ennis sees his options as so limited that to ascribe to him the same motivations that others have in relationships may be a stretch. I see Ennis as an emotionally stunted man who never really learned the value of a relationship.

Artiste:
I disagree, and think that Ennis did his very best, considering that he was in a war zone !

brokeplex:
he did his very best, but he was still an emotionally stunted man and could do only so much. my comment isn't an attack on the Ennis character, just what I feel is a realistic appraisal of what I feel the character could or couldn't feel for Jack, or Cassie, or Alma under the circumstances of his emotional retardation.

Artiste:
If you see Ennis in another light, he was in war zone ?

Worst in some ways, than that Greyhound man who was murdered recently ?

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