My thoughts...This is Wyoming, 1963 to 1983, a rough country and time. Ennis, grew up with little love in his family (regardless of the circumstances behind it) and like most children, losing parents, not feeling loved, the feeling of being rejected becomes the basis of his future and its not something a child or young adult can easily change. Feeling rejected and not wanted and therefore unloved at every turn in your life limits, in extreme fashion, how you can accept the love or acceptance of others, or even accept yourself. At the end, in the trailer scene with tears in his eyes he was able to touch the shirts and the postcard card lovingly and with feeling because, he knew, he, and his love for Jack, could now never be rejected. But he still lives with the guilt of Jack's death and can't accept, and therefore rejects, himself.
