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How would Lureen have reacted if she had caught JACK

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Kd5000:
with Ennis. She was more liberated and certainly more economically independent then Alma. Do you think she would have confronted Jack the very next day and not waited around bitting her nails, hedging her options.   Maybe this topic has already been covered before, but I would still be interested in hearing what other Brokies  have to think.

Here's my thoughts. 

Most likely scenario
A) She would have had an explosive blow-up with him, telling him to get out right away and never come back.  Alll the while crying on the inside. 
or
B) She would have slowly come around to confronting Jack.  Jack, are you gay?  How long has this been going on.  How will we protect Bobby from this. Why didn't you tell me this before we got married, etc.
or
C) She would have called her mother the very next day, confided in her what she had seen, pleaded with her mom not to tell her dad.  Calculated what's in her best interest, asked Jack for a divorce not mentioning what she had witnessed.
or
D) Act like nothing has happened. She might start seeing another man on the side. They would have an open marriage where she and Jack would show up together but she would know not to expect any sexual relations with her husband. 

Bucky:
I think Lureen probably suspected that Jack was not the macho type anyway and she had to almost force herself on Jack to have sex with him.  I am sure she wondered why Jack went up to Wyoming three or four times a year but his "buddy" never came to Texas.  Actually she said as much in the movie when Jack was looking for his blue parka.

Lureen knew that Jack was the butt of jokes among some of the people of Childress, Texas I think.  I know she over heard some man say to her father  "isn't that the pissant that used to ride the bulls."  Her father replied with a put down of Jack by saying "he used to try."  I really don't think Lureen would have been that surprised if she had seen Jack kissing Ennis.  I don't think Lureen would have fretted and grieved over it like Alma did but then Lureen was more sophiscated than Alma and probably knew more about the world than Alma.  I think she would tell Jack that it didn't surprise her because she had suspected that he was gay for some time.  What she would have done about it I couldn't guess but I think she would have stayed married to him for Bobby and the sake of appearing to have a normal family. 

Faye92:
That's a good question. I believe Lureen would have blown up about the entire scene but she would have kept it away from her parents to protect their reputation as well as she and Jack's. I don't believe she would have initiated a divorce though, even though she had the financial means to sustain and support a decent standard of living for she and her son. For some reason, I don't feel that she thought too highly of her father (hence the bashful smiling at the Thanksgiving dinner table scene when Jack put her father in his place) but that's just me. Perhaps out of inner spite, she would have stayed with him, keeping the secret between the two of them.

Lureen was such a trailblazer, I wouldn't even doubt that she would have encouraged Jack to pursue a relationship with Ennis protecting and supporting him, if you will, along the way. I need to watch the film again though and focus on her a bit to say for sure. She appeared extremely liberal to me.

Katie77:

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D) Act like nothing has happened. She might start seeing another man on the side. They would have an open marriage where she and Jack would show up together but she would know not to expect any sexual relations with her husband. 



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That one seems to me to be the more likely.....She became very business orientated, and I'm sure she would not have said anything, that may have been heard by her father.

It seems in the marriage, that she was the dominant partner anyway....and even in their first meeting she was the agressor.....She was a lot stronger willed and stronger nature than alma, and I think she probably guessed that there was something "different" about Jack.....I do think though that she loved him for who he was, and she was so proud of him when he stood up to her overbearing father, and I think if she had "caught Jack", it probably would have answered all her doubts about him, and I think too, that she would have carried on with her life the same way as she did.....

I some ways, when Ennis rang her after Jack died, I think a lot of her questions were answered, and a lot of her doubts confirmed.......

jpwagoneer1964:

--- Quote from: Katie77 on December 21, 2006, 09:17:13 pm ---That one seems to me to be the more likely.....She became very business orientated, and I'm sure she would not have said anything, that may have been heard by her father.

It seems in the marriage, that she was the dominant partner anyway....and even in their first meeting she was the agressor.....She was a lot stronger willed and stronger nature than alma, and I think she probably guessed that there was something "different" about Jack.....I do think though that she loved him for who he was, and she was so proud of him when he stood up to her overbearing father, and I think if she had "caught Jack", it probably would have answered all her doubts about him, and I think too, that she would have carried on with her life the same way as she did.....

I some ways, when Ennis rang her after Jack died, I think a lot of her questions were answered, and a lot of her doubts confirmed.......

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I'll go along with that.

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