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TOTW 26/08: Symbolism of food in the movie
LauraGigs:
[from another thread but I think it's appropriate for here]
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger ---I am wondering why AP had Jack eat two bowls of stew, two bottles of beer, four of Ennis's stone biscuits, and a can of peaches one evening early in their Brokeback Mountain adventure...
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Obviously Proulx is indicating Jack's ravenous nature and appreciation of what Ennis provides. But if we "read in" as Brokies tend to do...
The menu to me seems to hint at sexual tension. Even numbers (pairs) of most everything. Then the peaches — with their smell, ripeness, fuzz and round cleavage on the outside — connote youth, freshness and sexuality. Here, they're "canned" = preserved from a while ago, put on hold. Our boys, at least so far, have put overt sexuality on hold while up away from town. So the "stew" is especially appropriate. I pictured the "stone biscuits" as being round (or hard) like stones (didn't know that "stone" referred the grinding method). It can be thought of as a testicular reference (do you have the stones to do it, or not?)
And of course (to really reach), peaches are a fruit (queer).
Front-Ranger:
Good interpretation, friend!
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