Dec 23, 2009
Brokeback Mountain | Brokeback Mountain
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Proulx
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Plot: Realism, regional
- Time of Work: The 1960's to 1980's
- Setting: Wyoming
- Principal Characters: Jack Twist, Ennis del Mar
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Discrimination, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, 1980’s, West, U.S., Accidents, Death or dying, Mountain life, Conformity, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Cowboys or cowgirls, Wyoming
- Locales: Wyoming
The Story
Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are in their late teens when they are hired to tend sheep above
the tree line on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming during the summer of 1963. When the
temperature drops in the evening, Ennis wakes Jack up with his teeth chattering, and Jack invites
him into his bedroll. The two men have sex and continue to have sex through the rest of the
summer, although they never talk about it except when Ennis declares, “I’m not no
queer,” and Jack agrees, saying it is a one-shot deal and not anyone else's
business.
When the two men separate...
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