The shirts actually ruined me.

I wish this had been longer and more detailed, so perhaps that in itself indicates a 5 star short story?

"Brokeback Mountain" is about Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys that come together one summer while they're completing their seperate jobs as a sheepherder and a camp mantainer. They have to share a small tent together, so of course they start to fall in love. At first it's just a lusty attraction, but then their feelings for each other deepen by the time the summer is over. However, by fall they have gone back to their seperate lives under the pretense that they never met each other. Basically, they get married and have kids and stuff. Throughout the next many years they try to communicate but end up seperating every single time, but eventually their relationship together overtakes their lives even though neither of them can overcome the physical and emotional barriers that come with it.

I really wanted to love this book. Sadly, I did not feel the same way that a lot of other people did. It was a good book, although most of the feelings I got were from what was not said, and not from what was. I wish that the story was prolonged just a bit longer so that the depth of Ennis and Jack's relationship could've been described in more detail. Maybe that was a part of the solitude theme that practically radiated from this book. The prose was concise and just a little too concise for me, but I still found it readable. It was a good short story, good for a nap in the backyard, or something like that.

4 Stars


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Heartbreaking and no less powerful for its 50 sparse pages.