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The mettle of a man
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Artiste on October 14, 2007, 12:35:01 pm ---Hi Front-Ranger! So nice to hear from you!
Wow, you ask a question, Now I am pensive!! ??
Even sex comes to mind about that wire... metal!! ?? But am too shy to detail that!
Hugs!
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In that case, maybe your favorite metal things might be the handles! Specifically the coffeepot handle that is Ennis's only travel destination :D!!
Artiste:
Thanks Front-Ranger!
So good it is to hear from you!!
Just returned from my long voyage, and am very tired still after a good sleep!
Since I road my truck for this trip, I guess now that METAL for Ennis as well as for Jack was: the metal of a truck!! They each had trucks!! yes, they did!! We never realise how important trucks are in the BM movie, nor are to us all or most of us to-day??
Hugs!!
Front-Ranger:
A reference to metal that Meryl brought up in the Brokeback tarot thread was the iron skillet that Ennis cooked Jack's breakfast in. I find it incredibly poignant to think of him cracking the eggs into that skillet, and applying the liberal amount of salt, checking to see if the salt was flowing freely. The iron in the skillet comes from the earth, so was appropriately the domain of Ennis. Iron was also the element that brought Jack down, in reality or in Ennis's imagination. Salt, another product of the earth, was also at Ennis's command, since he knew the "salty words" to The Strawberry Roan."
Penthesilea:
Do you know how often the tire iron is mentioned in the story? No less than six times. :o Six, that's a whole lot for such a short story.
* They'd took a tire iron to him [Earl], spurred him up, drug him around by his dick until it pulled off...
* If he [Ennis's father] was alive and was to put his head in that door now you bet he'd go get his tire iron
* No, he thought, they got him with the tire iron.
* He didn't know which way it was, the tire iron or a real accident...
* So he knew it had been the tire iron.
* The spoon handle was the kind that could be used as a tire iron.
The first two are from the motel scene. The next two are from the phone call with Lureen, # 5 is from the Lightning Flat scene and the last one is from Ennis's dream after Jack's death.
The first two are spoken by Ennis. The next three are thoughts of Ennis and the last one is in Ennis's dreams.
All six mentions of the tire iron come from Ennis. I think my last thought overlaps with the current TOTW, the question whether Jack was murdered or died in an accident.
serious crayons:
I think you should post it there, too, Chrissi. Because as you've listed them here, you can see Ennis' thoughts developing and firming up. Which to me suggests they were in his mind in the first place.
And the last image, of the spoon and the tire iron, "in a cartoon shape and lurid colors that gave the dreams a flavor of comic obscenity" seems -- in my mind -- to really underscore the idea that the idea of Jack's murder is a product of Ennis' paranoia.
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