TOTW 22/08: Do you think they kept each others postcards?

[southendmd]

I voted "no" for both.

Ennis is way too paranoid to risk saving even innocent-sounding postcards from Jack.

Jack saved the shirts, long before any postcards were written.  What more did he need?

In drawing from the story, Annie suggests there are no saved postcards:

He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

Plus, Jack had his memory of the dozy embrace; and Ennis, "suffused with a sense of pleasure", had his dreams.

[loneleeb3]

I voted "no" for both.

Ennis is way too paranoid to risk saving even innocent-sounding postcards from Jack.

Jack saved the shirts, long before any postcards were written.  What more did he need?

In drawing from the story, Annie suggests there are no saved postcards:

He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

Plus, Jack had his memory of the dozy embrace; and Ennis, "suffused with a sense of pleasure", had his dreams.

 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

In drawing from the story, Annie suggests there are no saved postcards:

He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

Plus, Jack had his memory of the dozy embrace; and Ennis, "suffused with a sense of pleasure", had his dreams.

Very intersting, that is a good point. Usually the answer is right there in the source material. 

[Artiste]

Merci, loneleeb3

You say:
        Ennis is way too paranoid to risk saving even innocent-sounding postcards from Jack.
         
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Loneleeb3,
may I disagree to a certain point? Ennis at least, is protective, and therefore, I do NOT consider him too paranoid ! A lot or a bit, yes, yes!! He does cope with life... may we note, and to the best of his abilities ?

More later... if you like, may I ask ?


Au revoir,
hugs!