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Ennis did NOT want to leave the nest??

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Front-Ranger:
I can't really answer your questions but your post made me think....

Ennis wanted to go to school because that was what was expected of him and he wanted to fit in with society. But he was a different sort of person as Annie Proulx portrayed him. Ennis was one of a long line of nature's noblemen, men who are largely unschooled, rough, and perhaps unwashed, but innocent and mentally strong nonetheless. At home in the outdoors, able to take care of themselves, handy with tools, horses, and pickup trucks, strong, silent types with no use for manners and drawing room niceties. This archetype dates back to The Virginian, another book about Wyoming, written in the early 1900s, and the heroes of Zane Grey and others.

But in general, education is very important, and I hope more girls especially in Middle Eastern and Asian countries can receive education because when you educate a girl you are also educating her future children.

Artiste:
Thanks Front-Ranger!!

I believe that you are right.

You qualify Ennis rightly as I think... so too.
Am puzzled as to this, as well as to agree with you:
as you say Ennis...was a different sort of person as Annie Proulx portrayed him.

Wonder why Annie did him like that?

Hugs!!

Artiste:
Annie did think about both Ennis and Jack leaving the nest??

Artiste:
This is more or less complex that we think??

It needs much more developping as an issue?

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: Artiste on March 29, 2007, 03:46:29 pm ---Thanks Front-Ranger!!
Wonder why Annie did him like that?

Hugs!!

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Annie Proulx has stated that she writes about rural people, that is her specialty. Also, she set out to write a coming-of-age story in which Jack and Ennis make the transition from youth to adulthood. In her story, she portrayed Ennis and Jack as two peas in a pod from opposite corners of Wyoming. But in the movie, the differences in their characters were played up, because Ang Lee was more interested in exploring the yin/yang "dance" between Ennis and Jack, same as he did in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sense and Sensibility.

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