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Regarding the line "Alma´s mouth twitched"
Jeff Wrangler:
Perhaps the twitch is a nervous reflex, a response to Ennis using the word love after what Alma has just seen on the landing.
Brown Eyes:
Now I feel like looking at the movie again to see how Michelle dealt with this description... or how/if it was translated somehow into the film. It's amazing... this is a detail I've never thought about before even after all these years.
southendmd:
Here's a fun thread I never saw before.
I agree that a twitch implies something reflexive, involuntary. I suppose it could mean any of the things mentioned above, but I'd vote for shock.
Another great example of Annie's use of ambiguous phrases that makes the reader do the work.
Regarding Ennis's feelings towards his daughters, there is one harsh line that occurs later, after the Thanksgiving debacle:
He didn't try to see his girls for a long time, figuring they would look him up when they got the sense and years to move out from Alma.
Sason:
I've always found that line disturbing. To me it implies that Ennis is incapable of recognizing his daughters' need for him, despite his own negative feelings for Alma.
The very first time I saw the movie, the single line that got to me the most was the forlorn sounding and unanswered "Bye daddy! Bye!" when he storms out of Alma's house.
I think it conveys AP's line very well.
RouxB:
I see the twitch as a forced smile-a nervous reaction. Despite what she has just seen, she is still trying to maintain some semblance of manners for company. Her husband says something any mother would find endearing and the natural response would be to smile. But when said husband has just been caught kissing the hell out of a man, well...
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