Jack Twist
At the beginning of the story, at first glance “curly and laughable Jack” seems enough pretty, but for a small man he has “thick thighs” and his smile opens his “noticeable buckteeth”. He is obsessed with a rodeo, he has “a belt with a minor bull-riding buckle”, but his boots are “worn to the quick”. The image of Jack Twist gives an impression of the cheerful and hardworking person.
Ennis Del Mar
Ennis, “high-arched nose and narrow face”, is scruffy and a little cave-chested, balanced with “a small torso on long, caliper legs”, and possessed “a muscular and supple body” made for the horse and for fighting. His reflexes are “uncommonly quick”. Moreover, he is a calm person. The image of Ennis gives an impression of the courageous and strong man, who is also as hardworking as Jack Twist.
Brokeback Mountain’s nature
The author beautifully describes the mountains’ nature. Dawn comes “glassy-orange”, stained from below by “a gelatinous band of pale green”. The sooty bulk of the mountain “pales slowly” until it is the same color as the smoke from Ennis’s breakfast fire. The sheep graze on “the great flowery meadows”. The image of the mountains gives an impression of the different and amazing colors of nature.
Parental care
In September, Alma, Jr., Ennis’s daughter, was born. Since then, the bedroom of Ennis and Alma has been filled with the smell of “old blood, milk and baby shit”. There are different “sounds of children’s screaming, squalling, sucking” and “sleepy groans” of Alma. The image of Alma’s birth gives an impression of the most complicated, busiest, and sleepless nights of her parents.
