Right Katie!
Jimbo by a frisson showed genuinely that he was ANTI-GAY!
And more ?
So why have pity on Jimbo !
I rather like Jack since at least he was the ONLY man there ! A real genuine man, a loving person!
Au revoir,
hugs!
I disagree totally, he may have felt the frisson, and there is no direct reference as to whether it was Jack, him or both who felt it. But If I feel a man is comming onto me and I am not really interested, does that make me anti men. No it doesn't, it just means I am not interested in THAT man. Not the whole male population.
The use of the word frisson in the screenplay is ambiguous and deliberately so I think,the frisson makes Jimbo uneasy, but maybe that is because he, like Ennis is deeply closeted by fear. At no time does he seem threatening to Jack, in fact the screenplay says he remains perfectly friendly.
So it could be taken as the reverse of anti gay.Could be that he feels uneasy as he knows he is being watched, but that the frisson felt, is an indication that he fancies Jack, but is unwilling to admit it to himself, hence the feeling uneasy.In fact maybe Jimbo feels threatened by emotions he has, but does not understand or feel ready to accept.
He may be thinking, stupid sod, why didn't you do this somewhere else less obvious and I would have jumped your bones gladly.
As with all things BBM there are so may interpretations, all right as Proulx herself says, the story is not finished until it has been read, meaning we all have our own particular take on it, but welcome and indeed embrace the views of others. By so doing we open up our minds to endless possibilities and the story becomes a classic, being debated, years and sometimes centuries down the line, eg, Chaucer, Steinbeck, and Shakespeare himself.
I think there is a big hint in the screenplay when it sates that Jimbo "remains perfectly friendly"