I'm just throwing you folks off the scent.
However, David has a very astute observation going, which others made in my LJ and that is - there are parallels here between Ennis and Dupree, and while things have improved greatly between 1963 and 1984, and while Dupree is quite a bit less inhibited, they are dealing with very similar issues regarding their own internal pressure to conform and their shame about their sexual feelings about men, though having finally "done it" with Nick, he has crossed the Rubicon, as Oscar Wilde would say, and done the deed, which was the single biggest step he had not as yet taken.
where we will go from there - remains to be seen.
Oh yeah and... muahahahahahaha.