"On the edge of the meadow where the sheep are grazing, a dog sits by a dead sheep, killed by coyotes while Ennis slept in the tent, had sex with Jack. The script calls this sheep 'shredded' -- but Lee shows it lying on its back, its belly ripped apart, its innards exposed, a grim foreshadowing of the human image we'll see later of the murdered old Gay rancher whose corpse Ennis's father forced him to look at, aged nine. This
nightmare memory scares Ennis about being perceived as Gay, produces a violent image of Jack's death in his mind: Jack jumped on, surprised, beaten back onto the ground, his face slashed open by blows from his tire iron."