We do see each of them cry..Jack once; Ennis twice, no, three time, nio FOUR times (in the kneeling clinch) (jn the alleyway as well) (twice at the end--in Jack's room, at at the very end)--. I think it is ingrained in both of these men, and probably still in most men today, that they do not SHOW their feelings by crying. I don't think that it ingrained in them not to HAVE such feelings, only that they do not make a public exhibition of them. Country guys don't cry; life is too short, there isn't enough time, people can't be biothered with them cxrying--so they don't.
An interesting question, to me, concerns gay guys in general. I've found, berneath the sensitive exterior, sometimes and ENORMOUS sophistiocation, that so far exeeds my own, that I'm afraid to express "womanish" feelings around them, "soppyness." But gay guys, especially city ones, cry easily--at movies, at any rate! Reading books...but i sometimes have the sense that they can't be bothered with emotions that they had, 100 years ago---
Anyway, I came here to read your poems...