Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain

"Brokeback Mountain"Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut, into a family of farmers, mill workers, inventors, and artists whose ancestors had lived there for three centuries. Because of her father 's career in textiles, Proulx 's family constantly moved, so she lived in several states, including North Carolina, Vermont, Maine, and Rhode Island. She earned a bachelor 's degree in history from the University of Vermont in 1969 and then went on to graduate from Concordia University with a Master 's degree in Art in 1973 (Info Please). Starting as a Journalist, her first published work of fiction was "The Costums Lounge" and she subsequently published stories in Gray 's Sporting Journal in the late 1970s, eventually
Proulx gives a good description of both stating "They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite corners of the state, Jack Twist in Lightning Flat, up on the Montana border, Ennis del Mar from around Sage, near the Utah line, both high school drop out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough mannered, rough spoken, inured to the stoic life"(Proulx 74.) The antagonist of the story would be the locals and society for killing Jack because they didn 't find it acceptable for a man to be living with another man. I think both Ennis and Jack changed because they were both very masculine, rough, cowboys who had never been with a man before until they had a sexual encounter with each other and realized they were in love. This change is very believable because there are many people in our society today who are homosexual, marry their partners, and even take pride in being gay.

The story 's use of language is informal. Informal language is characterized by spontaneous speech and situations that describe natural or "real life". It 's used by family and friends, which proves the story has informal dialogue with casual
Ennis 's internalization of the belief that homosexuality is indecent and punishable by death, causes him to be ashamed about the intensity of his feelings for Jack. At the beginning of their relationship on the mountain, he insists that he is not "queer," that their feelings for each other are not indicative of his sexual orientation. His shame, coupled with his need to maintain his marriage in the face of public scrutiny, causes him to lie continually to Alma about his feelings for Jack, insisting that when she catches the two in a heated embrace, their actions are a result of their not having seen each other for years. His internalized homophobia makes him unable to accept himself or act congruently. Ennis needs to maintain the illusion of a conventional life, even if that life denies him the one person he desires