Without giving away too many spoilers the men don’t see each other for years, however once they meet again they end up having sex and making regular fishing sex trips. Despite not liking The Shipping News I was willing to give Proulx a second chance…īrokeback Mountain is the story of Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar who meet on Brokeback Mountain where they are both employed to keep an eye on a herd of sheep, during the cold lonely nights the 2 get closer and by that I mean they have sex, personally I didn’t ever feel that they were in love. Ok so I haven’t seen the film but like everyone else I was aware of the premise, two lonely cowboys fall in love.
Thirdly, this is the romantic way they first have sex “Ennis jerked his hand away as though he’d touched fire, got to his knees, unbuckled his belt, shoved his pants down, hauled Jack onto all fours and, with the help of the clear slick and a little spit entered him, nothing he’d done before but no instruction manual was needed”įinally, while being homosexual at that time was dangerous the two men appear to have no fear about being caught and the consequences are only mentioned in passing Secondly, the cowboys are actually sheep herders when they meet This blurb from the book cover is part of the reason I felt so let down by this read, I mean it promises so much, dramatic landscape, cowboys, romance and danger and as far as I am concerned it fails to deliver on all these points.įirstly, the landscape is barely mentioned except in passing But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for, something deadly”
Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands – ‘drop-out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, tough spoken’ – glad to have found each other’s company where none had been expected. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. “Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming thirty years ago where cowboys lived much as they had done for generations.
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