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TOTW 27/08: Do you think Ennis would have asked Lureen for Jack's ashes?

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Penthesilea:
Hey BetterMostians,

it's been a while, but this week we have a question suggested by a member as TOTW :D. Whoo-eee!
Many thanks to Milo (Milomorris) for the suggestion!
 

I thought Milo's questions would work very well as a poll, so I created one. You have two votes, one for each question. The questions are self-explaining, so without further ado, here they are:

Do you think Ennis would have asked Lureen for the part of Jack's ashes that were in Texas? If so, would she allow them to be exhumed and taken to Brokeback?

Front-Ranger:
The only way Ennis would have gotten Jack's ashes IMHO is if Lureen or OMT offered them to him. He wouldn't have made the risky step of asking for the ashes of a man who had been killed, he feared, for being gay. Not until he found the shirts, at least. And probably not afterwards, either. It just wouldn't be in his character.

Penthesilea:
I voted no to the question whether Ennis would have asked Lureen for the part of Jack's ashes that were in Texas. I think he never-ever would.

But hypothetically, if he would have, I think maybe Lureen would have given him the ashes. So I voted I don't know on the second question.
She still loved/respected Jack enough that she wanted his wishes carried out: he was cremated like he wanted, she sent half of the ashes up to his folks because she thought Brokeback Mountain might be some place up there, and she sent Ennis to the Twists so he could scatter the ashes, like Jack had wanted.

But on the other side are practical considerations: the ashes would have to be exhumed. Would this go unnoticed in Childress? Or would it create a hoopla and gossip? While I think it wouldn't be important to Lureen if the ashes were actually in there where she put the stone up, I think she would have hated any gossip and speculation.

mariez:
Well, it was probably hard enough for Ennis to make the trip to Lightning Flat and to approach OMT:

.....I come by to tell you that if you want me to take his ashes up there on Brokeback like his wife says he wanted I’d be proud to.”

So once he got turned down there, I can't imagine him calling Lureen back and wanting the ashes that were buried in Texas.  I don't think he would've had any contact with Lureen after that phone call.  And I also think that, once he found the shirts, the he wouldn't feel as much need to bury Jack's ashes on Brokeback because the shirts give him the realization that Brokeback's power was only "imagined."  Their love was the real power. 

Marie

brokeplex:
as Ennis aged, overtime, he might have recontacted Lureen, and under the pretext that OMT was refusing Jack's last wishes, he might have requested some to be sent up.

were Jacks ashes actually buried? Lureen did put up a stone, but did she bury the ashes? Maybe she has the ashes on mantle somewhere?

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