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The "You gotta feel sorry for Jack" thread

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Brown Eyes:
 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

JT:
You gotta feel sorry for Jack for waiting 20 years for Ennis and didn't get him at the end.

twistedude:
In fact, your heart has to break for Jack most of the time..except during that first summer.

moremojo:

--- Quote from: atz75 on May 26, 2006, 09:09:20 pm ---All that Ennis does for him following his death would have stunned a living Jack.  I mean, Jack couldn't drag Ennis kicking and screaming up to Lightning Flat while he was alive... but once he's dead, Ennis is anxious and determined to go on his own.
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For all my love for these two characters, this is another aspect of their relations that puzzles me. When you are in love with someone, it makes sense that you would want to know everything about your beloved, including everything about their past, their childhood, and all the myriad factors that helped make them who they were when you met them. I could imagine being in Jack's place, for example, and taking a trip down to Sage simply to get a better idea of what shaped my soul-mate's being. Yet there is no evidence of such an impulse on Jack's part, and, as you say, it is only in Jack's death that Ennis exhibits curiosity about Lightning Flat. Perhaps the implication is that, in life, the two men took each other for granted; it was death that revealed the true depths of feeling to Ennis's conscious mind.

Quite sad, indeed.

JT:

--- Quote from: twistedude on September 28, 2006, 04:17:37 pm ---In fact, your heart has to break for Jack most of the time..except during that first summer.

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You're right!  My heart breaks for Jack almost all the time and near the end, for Ennis also.

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