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tent scene, in the short story.
Rayn:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on May 16, 2006, 08:35:14 am --- And so on. It doesn't always mean something, but many times it does, so it seems worth pinning down those details.
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Like I said, "...if you like that sort of thing... have at it!"
Rayn
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: Joe Allen Doty on May 18, 2006, 03:00:27 am ---But, "Ennis' inner struggle, and ultimate conquering of his fears," are actually in the original short story as published in "Close Range."
He never quite conquers his fears in the last pages of the story; but, in the opening italicized paragraphs, it seems that he has become more accepting of his former relationship with Jack as evidenced in his last day on the Stoutamire ranch before he goes to stay with his married daughter.
The way that Annie Proulx wrote those two paragraphs at the start of the Dead Line, Ltd., copyright 1997, version of the story, it makes me think that if Ennis were to meet another man toward whom he felt sexually attracted, he might begin a relationship with him if he also liked him very much, too . . . AND feel in love with him like he was with Jack Twist. It took about or more than 20 years for Ennis to decide that he had been in love with Jack since the summer of 1963.
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but what exactly is that fear? fear of being himself? or fear of the world not accepting him? I think that's what my original post was getting at. In that description, he didn't seem too uncomfortable to get intimate with Jack. For me it's evidence that he isn't struggling so much with being queer. Even AP's "You know I ain't queer" description was rather dismissive, as if she means to suggest that neither of them believed it. To me his fear comes from not being able to see a place in the world for himself.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on May 19, 2006, 12:37:13 pm --- Even AP's "You know I ain't queer" description was rather dismissive, as if she means to suggest that neither of them believed it.
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That's funny. I just finished writing this, in so many words, on the "job switch" thread.
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on May 19, 2006, 12:47:28 pm ---That's funny. I just finished writing this, in so many words, on the "job switch" thread.
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Great minds, ..., as they say. he he.
opinionista:
--- Quote ---It was big enough, warm enough, and in a little while they deepened their intimacy considerably.
The screenplay writers and/or the movie makers ignored what is in the quoted sentence which was even in the New Yorker Magazine version of the short story.
I say that when Jack felt the rise in Ennis's Levi's, the reason that took Ennis's left hand and put it on his (Jack's) erect cock was to show Ennis that he was just a horny, too.
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I hadn't think of it. But it makes sense. Jack couldn't just grab Ennis hand out of the blue. Something made him do it.
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