Thanks RossInIllinois!!
I do agree with you that Mr. John Twist likely had wanted that Ennis come before that time, with Jack at Mr. and Mrs. John Twist's home!! I think that!
You say:
Im not sure if Jacks father was trying to hold on to Ennis but the Twists were welcoming of him for sure. The old man might even have been slightly bitter to Ennis for not coming to his ranch and making a home there with his son. The fact they let him take Jacks belongings without question tells me they knew the situation quite clear. He was also asked to come back any time.
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I say that it could very well be that Mr. John Twist wanted to hold on to Ennis, because he knew that Ennis was a decent man who had and still love his son Jack Twist!! That was John Twist's way of telling Ennis off, man to man, of not having come to stay with Jack at the Mr. and Mrs. John Twist's home, in order to make it his home too as two lovers, maybe?? Mr. John Twist does stress this, it seems to me, that Jack had said that he wanted to Ennis to come, that must have been mentioned to Mr. and Mrs. John Twist many, many times by Jack in those 20 years!! ??
You are right that both Mr. and Mrs. John Twist let Ennis leave with Jack's belongings like wiht that shirt, was it?
They either or both could have refused that
Ennis brought back with him either of the shirts!!
As civil as they were, Mr. and Mrs. John Twist did allow Ennis into the house, even upstairs alone in Jack's room!! That to me was a lovable act by both of Jack's parents, since they knew that Jack and Ennis were best pals, working buddies, and likely too as known lovers!! The movie scene seems to indicate that by all the actors!! Does Annie's story do so to that extent??
Awaiting your news,
hugs!!