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JT:
We all know most of these characters suffered one way or another and we feel sympathy for them.  To me, I can sympathized with all of them, but I pitied for most is Alma.  Perhaps it was the actress' wonderful acting abilities, but she seems to suffer the most next to our boys.

dot-matrix:
I pity Bobby Twist.  Losing his Daddy like that and you know if Jack was murdered as Ennis believes then there will be gossip about his Daddy being gay that Bobby will not understand and I don't think Lureen showed enough character to help him with.  Sad

Toast:
Excellent question:
Because of the ABCs Game I have dictionary.commed so many words this year, so why not one more:

Pity - sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another,  often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy

I think I feel pity for every character in the movie, even Aguirre (flicking his magazine pages and saying he has no jobs for rose stemmers), even Jimbo (unable to share a beer with a lone man).  And definitely for all the people inside the Del Mar and Twist families.
I think what is pitiful is the family structure, so rigid and dominant.
It has become so easy to say what is right in a family that we have lost sight of what is wrong in a family.   A man, a woman and children make it RIGHT.   Love, respect and decency towards everyone seems to have gone out the window.

I pity the family members most, and the ones who need real affection more are the larger victims here.  Bobby will grow up to be like his grandfather.  Lureen is like her mother.  The transmission of shallow family values is the pitiful theme here, in my opinion.

It is so pitiful that you cannot give relief or aid or show mercy to these people.

Front-Ranger:
I feel sorry for just about everyone too, even OMT and the bikers, but the person I most feel sorry for is Jack.

Scott6373:
The story and the film are perfect examples of classic Greek tragedy.  That being said, one of the aims of a tragedy is to engender feelings of pity and/or sympathy on the part of the viewer/reader.

All of the charectars were flawed.  All of the charectars suffered loss.  There's a measure of pity for each one, but whichever one more closely resembles one's own personal experience is usually the one we feel the most for.  For me it was Jack.

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