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Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
For all the low-hanging jokes about the film, this short story is an exceptional piece of writing.
Lots of great lines such as:
Lots of great lines such as:
...swapping the bottle while the lavender sky emptied of color and the chill air drained down...
A slow corrosion worked between Ennis and Alma, no real trouble, just widening water...
"You know, friend, this is a goddam bitch of a unsatisfactory situation. You used a come away easy. It’s like seein the Pope now."
Count the damn few times we been together in twenty years. Measure the fuckin short leash you keep me on…
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...his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack’s own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one.