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vkm91941:
and think of this...he would never hear his name spoken by another human being..no one would speak of him because no one knew him...for the rest of his life.   

Jack would live only in Ennis' mind...the dreams talked about in the short story were so moving, so real that he would either come or wake in tears..............

Ennis  lived in his dreams and slept through his days after Jake died....Maybe he always had, living for the time he snatched with Jack, his only happiness and existed the rest of the time in a kind of limbo of work and child support until the next time he could get away to be with Jack. 

Really emphasises the tragedy of Ennis's life.

hermitdave:
 :'(

Sheyne:

Victoria, you actually made me cry with what you wrote. I think I'm only starting to sift through the layers of this cloud that has settled over me since seeing Brokeback.  The tragedy of Ennis's life is only a small part of that cloud. The way you put it, the way you explained it just brought another flood of emotion..

I needed this cry, so i wanted to say thanks, but god, don't you wish things had been different for these boys??  :'( :'(

vkm91941:

--- Quote from: hungry_hungryhippos on April 17, 2006, 01:55:34 am --- but god, don't you wish things had been different for these boys??  :'( :'(

--- End quote ---

Oh Sheyne I'm so pathetic about it that everytime I watch it I hope till the end that it will turn out different this time... :-\

ednbarby:
Along these same lines, I always find it particularly poignant when Lureen says to Ennis, "I thought it was someplace to drink.  Jack drank a lot."  That last bit stabs me in the heart.  My mother turned to drinking to self-medicate after the love of her life, my father, left her when I was 2.  It took a few years, but by the time I was in kindegarten, she was a full-fledged alcoholic.  It makes me picture him in the house with Lureen and Bobby at night after work, missing Ennis so much he can hardly stand it, pouring himself one whiskey shot after another (I don't think he'd just pull on the bottle in front of Lureen) until he stumbled to bed drunk.

And I agree with Victoria that Don Wroe was a co-worker, not a friend, to Ennis.  I kind of see him as a boss, really, which would delineate them even further.  I figure he owns/owned a ranch Ennis worked on.  I could see a ranch owner a) having the money to own a hunting/fishing cabin and b) offering it to Ennis because he's his hardest worker and seems to be the type who likes his solitude.  I agree that Ennis had no other male friends than Jack, partly because of his homophobia and fear of people thinking it was something else, and partly because Jack was all the friend he needed.

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