Brokeback Mountain depicts the illicit homosexual romance, is a short story written by the American novelist Annie Proulx. The story is first published in The New Yorker in 1997, and has had the extended publication in the 1998 collection of Proulx short stories, namely, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. In the same year, the story has Proulx winning a third place in the O.Henry Award prize.
The screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and the director Ang Lee had a film adaption released in 2005, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, which later was honored abound accolades, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, along with eight Academy Award nominations.
Delineation of love and desolation is fulfilled in the setting and symbols of the story. The depiction of two cowboys from 1993 to
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clandestine
Symbols:
Closet and shirts
Contrary to the outdoor scenes, the domestic scenes are typically and evidently, portrayed as dull and confining. In the scene when Ennis visits Jack's parents in Lightning Flat after his death, Proulx introduces a moment of epiphany in the constrained environment. The reveals starts with Ennis' visit in Jack's old room and the description of the Jack's closet: “The closet was a shallow cavity”. This has had a sense of claustrophobic as coming out of the closet would have a clear significance in the conformity of sexuality in a homosexual relationship. Even so, in Wyoming, a homophobic and conservative state, staying in the closet would be a prudent and predictable decision. In the small closet, lies the reprehensible relationship of two full-grown men, and the reveal of a secretive act: “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves carefully worked down inside Jack’s sleeves. It was his own plaid shirt, lost, he’d thought, long ago in some laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside