The short story "Brokeback Mountain" seemed less like a love story than the story of Ennis. It wasn't a balanced back and forth story of the two men. Alma the wife of Ennis is introduced where Lurleen, Jacks wife is only introduced when she speaks to Ennis for the first time. Nothing is really learned about Jack Twist unless it's learned through Ennis. Jack is either describing his life or upbringing to Ennis or Ennis is remembering a particular story about Jack. The story is obvious about what Jack Twist wants, the two men to have a ranch and be together as they were the few months they herded sheep. Ennis won't even consider it, describing his disciplinarian father, not unlike Jack's. Ennis goes on about two local men he knew as a kid one of which turned up viciously murdered. By the end of the story Jack turns up dead himself and Ennis is left with horrible thoughts of Jack being beaten to death.
I took the two characters as ashamed and hypocritical men. Their motivations and average behavior show more than that going on. they both had hard upbringings, they were both outsiders, and neither one related to anyone else but the other. Again Jack had no confusion about what he wanted, Ennis was the one who was confused.
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