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David:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on July 26, 2006, 01:16:21 pm ---. Meanwhile, he has retreated from the world so much that he doesn't go into the PO in town anymore -- instead, he has a mailbox.
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That was my thought.    Alot of people thought the mailbox was a good sign.   I didn't think so.  To me, this was his way of avoiding people in town, whether hopefull girls like Cassie or suspicious eyes from the townsfolk.

"you ever go outside and see someone looking at you and think that he knows?"

nakymaton:
Poor Ennis. He clearly needs some high-speed internet in his life.

So the work phone call means that Ennis is married to his work?

I wonder what a cell phone would mean in this context.

Front-Ranger:
In a way, the post cards are like the binoculars. Jack and Ennis correspond through the post cards, believing themselves to be invisible, but Alma reads and makes note of what they say. And at the end a bureaucratic rubber stamp obscures what's on the card Ennis sends Jack. They are being watched through the post cards just as they were watched by Aguirre through the binoculars. It's clear at the end that Ennis has a fond spot for post cards since he includes one in the shrine he's set up in the closet. So, that's why I think the mailbox is a nostalgia thing, put up by Ennis in  hopes of receiving a post card or two from his daughters one day. And lo and behold, as soon as he puts up the mailbox, his daughter appears!! Post cards figure in Annie Proulx's other works, in fact she wrote a novel called Post Cards in which replicas of hand written post cards appear throughout the book.

I see the post cards this way because of a personal experience I had while in college. I was home on break and my travelling boyfriend sent me a post card mentioning how much he was looking forward to lying beside my naked body when he returned. I caught hell for it (I didn't do anything!! >:() and never did get to see the actual post card, which my parents threw away.

Thank you for bringing this up Katherine, because I've been meaning to discuss the post cards for, oh, about eight months now!!

Front-Ranger:
Considering the events of today, I'd say Ennis should be sending up a prayer of thanks to his lucky stars that he lived before high-speed Internet, Mel!!!!!!!!!!!

laurel:
I just found this thread today.  I know I'm a little late to the party, but I'm hoping the Mel-O-Tron can help me out.  What do you think is the significance that in Annie Proulx's story, Ennis notifies Jack of his divorce by phone (the ONLY time they ever spoke on the phone), but in the movie, Ennis informs Jack of the divorce by post card?! ;D

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