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John Beebe's The Presence Of An Absence

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In 2005 a movie was released based on the short story Brokeback Mountain, and due to a few critics that didn’t read into Proulx’s earlier creations, the reviews differ from the short story. The reviews that were released after the movie no longer focused on living in farmhands in the harsh Wyoming lands. Rather the concentration was on the homosexual desire the two main characters had towards one another. In John Beebe’s “The Presence of an Absence”, he talks solely about the relationship between Jack and Ennis and the effect of their characters towards the other characters. Not once was there a mention of the lands of Wyoming and the farms that they worked on in the review. This may have been due to the rise of homosexual pride after the release
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