Well, but (and I realize this is OT and there are probably a million other places I could dispute this, but I happen to be here just now) it's not like Ennis spurned Jack completely. If he had, if Ennis had not returned Jack's love at all or gotten together with him when he could, then two years might be too much. It's not that he completely didn't "come around," he just didn't come out. But a love that doesn't include living together is not the same as no love at all.
You're right, Ennis did not spunned Jack completey, but I think it would've been better for him to call it quits after Ennis' divorce when he drives all the way to Wyoming only to be rejected. That's when Jack dies (emotionally, I mean). I understand that Ennis had his daughters and Jack went there at a bad moment, but Ennis could've handled the situation differently. Jack was humulliated (and Jake conveyed that so well!). Besides, Jack himself complaints, during the argument at the lakeside, that Ennis was not coming to see him that much anymore, when he says
you used to come easy, now is like seeing the Pope . I think the whole situation was killing Jack emotionally because he wasn't happy at all, he was totally miserable. (Maybe we should open a whole new thread, instead of talking here OT, what do you think?).
UPDATEThe thread
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2426.0