Compare And Contrast Jack And Ennis

By contrast, just as the outdoors is represented as expansive, beautiful, and overwhelming, the domestic scenes are portrayed as dull, claustrophobic and constraining. Home is often a contested space, not the place of safety and belonging. The homes of both Jack and Ennis represent the obstacle to their happiness. When Ennis learns of Jack's death, “the huge sadness of the Northern plains rolled down on him” (Proulx. Following Jack’s death, Ennis travels to Jack’s parents house to try to retrieve his ashes to take them to Brokeback Mountain. Ennis discovers two shirts, which both have bloodstains, in the back corner of Jack’s small closet. They are his own and Jack's from their summer on Brokeback Mountain together. He takes the shirts back