![]() ![]() They are both headstrong and proud but also trapped in what society expects from them. I both liked and disliked Ennis and Jack. Being a short-story, it didn’t need all the extra information. ![]() I read it in about two hours.īecause it is so short, there’s not a lot of character development or background to the story. This is a very short book, my copy only has 55 pages. I’m talking heart clenching, verge of tears. I did not expect to like this story as much as I did but by the time I finished reading it, it left me feeling very emotional. Short story by Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker October 13, 1997. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.īoth men work hard, marry, and have kids because that’s what cowboys do. “… and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.”Įnnis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they’re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. ![]()
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