Brokeback Mountain

“It was his own plaid shirt, lost, he'd thought, long ago in some

damn laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing,

stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack's own shirt, the pair

like two skins, one inside the other, two in one.”

This quote is important because it brings a lot of closure to the story. It sums up the relationship of Jack and Ennis into one line. I think that this describes how attached Jack and Ennis were. In the beginning of the story when Ennis is driving away from Jack he becomes physically sick. His stomach starts to get cramped and he tries to puke but cant. I found this part of the story interesting because I have never read a story or saw a movie where the characters were that entranced by one another.

            Certainly, I have read stories when the characters become irrational and emotional when their partner leaves them. However in the stories I normally read the characters usually just get depressed after a breakup. And they may do irrational things, for instance some people think so irrationally that they cant move on at all. Although that is not the way the story goes. Neither character in this story thinks irrationally because of the way that they feel about each other.

            This story is a great example of a paradox. Jack and Ennis meet and their lives are changed forever. The power of their attraction controls their life. When they see each other they begin to feel whole again. Through out the story neither of the characters becomes irrational. Normally if something has complete control over a person it can cause them to act out irrationally.