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Who had Control and Used it: Jack or Ennis?
Scott6373:
--- Quote from: chelseagirl on May 11, 2007, 07:47:00 am ---Did Ennis discovered this too late?
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I'm not sure Ennis really knew that he had any control. He was never one to admit to himself whatever abilities he may have had. It was probably one of those things, where in his heart he knew what he was doing, but could not stop himself from behaving that way.
chelseagirl:
--- Quote from: Scott on May 11, 2007, 08:04:37 am ---I'm not sure Ennis really knew that he had any control. He was never one to admit to himself whatever abilities he may have had. It was probably one of those things, where in his heart he knew what he was doing, but could not stop himself from behaving that way.
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Yeah Scott,
I agree with you, but I always thought that experience when he was nine, stunted somehow him emotionally. Quiet, loner, when he met Jack, he started to have feelings he didn't understand or want.
He loved Jack, he hated that he did. Does this make sense?
Front-Ranger:
Yes, it makes sense to me, chelsea girl!
Another thing, it's interesting that both Jack and Ennis had traumatic experiences as children, both at the hands of their fathers. But Jack reacted differently than Ennis. Jack didn't seem to have been so scarred as Ennis at the brutal beating and humiliating experience of being pissed on. It would be difficult to try to determine which experience was the more traumatic. I think the reason they reacted so differently was because of their different natures.
Artiste:
Just reading a bit of you two last comments, may I say that both (Jack and Ennis) hated in a way being in love with each other!!
Does that make sense?? To which degree, was this disliking of loving each other??
Because gay life is a danger to gay men, because of straights who want to kill homosexuals!! I suggest, even to-day!! And it is getting worst!!
Hugs, hugs!!
chelseagirl:
Jack was far more at ease with who is was than Ennis. IMO,
That fact alone was a deep bone of contention between the both of them. Ennis fought it to a point where he couldn't and had to be with Jack.
So to me, Ennis insistence to some degree of control of the relationship was through his eyes a way of protection, but because of exactly that was slowly eating at the both of them.
It wasn't the outside world, but Ennis fears that blocked the road to peace for the both of them.
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