This represent Holdens happy place. He appreciates visiting the exhibits often becouse they never change, Represents his refusal to accept change
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. It is where Holden grew up. Represents openness and possibility. It is where the museum of Natural History is located
Holdens boarding school represented by dissatisfaction. He finds everyone and everything their fake and phony
After Jack dies, Ennis visits Lightning Flat, the home of Jack's parents and where Jack's ashes were sent to be buried. It is said to be along the border with Montana. This is where Ennis finds the shirt of his that Jack kept tucked inside his own from Brokeback Mountain.
"He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth. and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands."
After Ennis leaves Alma, he continues meeting with Jack Twist.
"Years on years they worked their way through the high meadows and mountain drainages, horse-packing into Big Horns, Medicine Bows, Gallatins, Absarokas, Granites, Owl Creeks, the Bridger-Teton Range, the Freezeouts and the Shirleys, Ferrises and the Rattlesnakes, Salt River Range, into the Wild Rivers, the Sierra Madres, Gros Ventres, the Washakies, Laramies, but never returning to Brokeback."
"One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enought time, never enough."
This is also the portion of the novel where Ennis and Jack get into an argument after Ennis refuses to run away with Jack and live together. It is not clear exactly where they are amidst the many locations listed that they visited.
After the summer ends, Ennis marries Alma Beers and moves to the old Elwood Hi-Top place north of Lost Cabin in Washakie County. After they have their first daughter, they move to Riverton. This is where Ennis gets a letter from Jack Twist asking to meet for the first time in four years.
"Late in the afternoon, thunder growling, that same old green pickup truck rolled in and he saw Jack get out of the truck, beat-up Resistol tilted back. A hot jolt scaled Ennis and he was out on the landing pulling the door closed behind him. Jack took the stairs two by two. They seized each other by the shoulders, hugged mightily, squeezing the breath out of each other, saying, son of a bitch, son of a bitch, then, and easily as the right key turns the lock tumblers, their mouths came together."
Brokeback Mountain is actually a fictional place in the short story "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx. It is inspired by the Bighorn Mountains which is a sister range of the Rocky Mountains existing halfway between Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park. It is the location where Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar meet for the first time while working for Farm and Ranch Employment over the summer, making it extremely significant.
"Dawn came glassy orange, stained from below by a gelatinous band of pale green. The sooty bulk of the mountain paled slowly until it was the same color as the smoke from Ennis's breakfast fire. The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows, and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite. During the dy Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth. Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as...
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