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Why did Mrs. Twist (Jack's mother) and MrTwist (his father) let Ennis have shirt
loreen:
--- Quote from: buffymon on December 28, 2008, 04:54:36 am ---I think she was waiting for someone to come and pick them up. I think Mrs Twist sending Ennis up to Jack's room was a test of sorts. Kinda like "if you're the right person, if you're the One, then you'll recognise the shirts."
I don't think Mr Twist knew about the shirts. Even if he would have seen them, I don't think he would have understood their significance
I often think about what happened to those shirts after Ennis died. They are the last proof of what Ennis and Jack had together. I sure hope they weren't thrown away.
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Oh dear! I never thought of it in this way - If Ennis was the one. The one who made her son keep blood stained shirts for almost 20 years... This is so moving.
And I can see that now - maybe she really wanted him to see the shirts and to give her a sign- was he the one her son loved the most! Lovely lady!
As for the John Twist, I think that he couldn't care less. Two shirts? What shirts? He just wanted to show a final disrespect towards his son and bury his ashes in the family plot, and that's all. He didn't care for Jack or shirts. Otherwise, he'd let Ennis take jack's ashes to Brokeback. :'(
Monika:
I wonder if Randall ever visited the Twists. But Mr Twist would probably have said something about it, if he had. Another thing to throw in Ennis´s face.
But I kinda like the idea and how Mrs Twist would have known that Randall wasn´t the One because he didn´t take the shirts with him.
loreen:
--- Quote from: buffymon on January 11, 2009, 08:20:47 am ---I wonder if Randall ever visited the Twists. But Mr Twist would probably have said something about it, if he had. Another thing to throw in Ennis's face.
But I kinda like the idea and how Mrs Twist would have known that Randall wasn't the One because he didn't take the shirts with him.
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IMO Randall was too dandy to go to LF!! He meant very little to Jack, and Jack's mother and father knew that, as Jack was talking about Ennis Del Mar for years.
I believe that mentioning Randall in front of his parents was an act of despair, not of real affection for Randall or even a slightest possibility that he would come to live in LF!
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: loreen on January 11, 2009, 08:50:40 am --- as Jack was talking about Ennis Del Mar for years.
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Exactly. It was Ennis Jack kept talking about all those years.
I don't think sending Ennis upstairs was a kind of test for Ennis from Mrs. Twist, along the lines of "If you're the right one, you'll find the shirts"
I think she sent him deliberately upstairs because she knew he was the one and she wanted him to find the shirts.
loreen:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on January 11, 2009, 09:06:21 am ---
I think she sent him deliberately upstairs because she knew he was the one and she wanted him to find the shirts.
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Yes, that could most probably be the truth!
Until this thread I never had the idea that sending Ennis to Jack's room is directly connected with the shirts, but it surely make sense. And it is so moving! Especially the love and understanding of Jack's Ma towards their forbidden love ... :'(
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