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jpwagoneer1964:
Jack may have complained a lot about the work on the mountian, cold, etc.  but here never complained about having to drive all the way to Wyoming to see Ennis as often as Ennis could get together. Jack was always willing to make himself availiable to Ennis.

dly64:
Jack was much more in tune with his feelings for Ennis. I love this description in the book:

What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger ..... that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single most artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see or feel that it was Jack he held.

Jack would have given up everything if Ennis would have said the word. The tragedy is that Ennis could not even admit that his one-in-a-lifetime love was Jack ...  until Jack was dead.

David:

--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on June 23, 2006, 08:21:53 pm ---  but he never complained about having to drive all the way to Wyoming to see Ennis as often as Ennis could get together. Jack was always willing to make himself availiable to Ennis.

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So very true!  But haven't we all driven miles to be with the one we loved at some point?

OldeSoul:

--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on June 23, 2006, 09:04:50 pm ---So very true!  But haven't we all driven miles to be with the one we loved at some point?
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Driven hundreds of miles, dropped an entire month's paycheck on plane tickets....yep.

Another thing about Jack's bitching (which I can't help but love) is that I always take it to be that part of his personality that won't let him settle for anything that he doesn't think is right. Wether is be Aguirre's bending of the rules, or Ennis' unwillingness to have that "sweet life". I get saddened a lot because I can empathize with Jack's frustration at trying, gently, to coax Ennis into a better life and Jack never seeing it "come to pass".

Luvlylittlewing:
Jack had a tendency to bitch, IMO because he was a dreamer.  He never wanted to settle, always imagined something better.  A good example of this is when Ennis lost their food on Brokeback due to being startled by a bear, and Jack refused to settle for beans.  Ennis was content to eat only beans, which shows us how in life he was more of a "that'll do"  person.  Jack wanted more for himself and Ennis.

But you're right, Jack never bitched about driving long miles to see Ennis because he was able to be with the man he loved, which was his joy.  Jack, ever the dreamer, probably thought that Ennis would someday come around, and that was a goal worth driving 14 or so hours for.  No need to bitch when working toward a dream.  Hope this makes sense.

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