So, how do you interpret the last line of the story?
Hi Mel:
What a
grrrrrreat idea for a thread!!! I love it!!!
Ok, Here's my interpretation, that I concluded for myself way back in April:
There was some open space- uncertainty
- room for Ennis to draw his own conclusion about how Jack died
between what he knew- that he was in the dark as to the truth about how Jack died
- he did not have concrete evidence, only Lureen's account of it
and what he tried to believe...- that Jack was not killed in a brutal way
- that it was an accident, just as Lureen described
I hope this is clear, I am saying that: "There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe", I interpret as:
Ennis did not know a hunnerd percent that it
was the brutal death of his imagination, so what he tried to believe was that it was the accident.
The reason I concluded this (and I have not read the story for a couple of months so I hope I haven't forgotten all my proofs) is because in the story Annie writes "Ennis
did not hear about the accident for months". So since the narrator of the story called it an accident, that could very well be the correct description for Jack's death. (Of course I know that she could be calling it an accident as in "Ennis did not hear about the-accident-described-by-Lureen" so that 'proof' is not conclusive, but my second 'proof' for thinking it was an accident is again based on what the narrator says:
There was some space between what Ennis knew and what he tried to believe - hey wait a minute! I am using the same line in the story to prove the same line in the story!
Good grief!!
I think I better read the story agin, 'n stop readin' so much fanfic 'n threads on BetterMost!!! (Never gonna happen!!)
Is there
anybody out there who concurs with my interpretation? Anybody? Because on the poll of this subject I know that my vote was in the minority. I have since broadened my view of the bigger picture, but as to the deciphering of this sentence, this is still how I interpret it.
Jane