Homosexuality, love relationship
This is a story of true male love without unnecessary sentimentality. Two young guys warmed each other on Brokeback Mountain and their tender story also warmed the reader’s heart. Yes, it the outcomes are hurtful, but the love is worth it. This story is very surprising – love, which must be unnatural, looks very natural on the pages. The reader will want to believe every word. This is love between two rough, uneducated workers – sex, hunting, and whiskey. It is unutterable, shameful and secret. This is a story about love. It has heavy, strong, masculine language about sweat, blood, longing and forbidden love from the point of view of the generally accepted morality. Initially, this love was doomed
American life, reality
The story tells about the difficult life of the main characters in the state of Wyoming. That is why it should be noted that this is not the place, where the reader would like to be. Burning dumps, oil refineries, depleted soil, uranium mines, collieries, oil wells, timber enterprises, polluted rivers, oil pipelines, methanol plants, railways are all America’s “charms”. Surely, this is not the perspective America, which we used to see in movies. The American dream has not yet reached Wyoming and it is unlikely to reach this area. This is a special place. However, from the first pages it can be seen that the author loves Wyoming with its mud, remoteness, manners, rigid romantic, but still romantic.
Happiness
Everyone wants to be happy, including the main characters of the story. The author hints that you cannot refuse your happiness no matter how contradictory it is. Then you can regret, but nothing can be changed. Nothing at all. Time is passing and everything is changing. Ennis’s life changes, when his beloved Jack dies, who could make Ennis happy. Everything is be clear. It is clear how much Ennis has missed, but it is too late. Of course, Ennis is sorry that he did not live his life with Jack. Nevertheless, happiness is not worth of being miserable all the life, fearing condemnation of society and then regretting what was not done. Perhaps Ennis reproaches himself, but he chooses this way.
Time, past
It is devilishly sad, knowing and even seeing the way out, to remain a hostage of time, society and stereotypes. Moreover, this is exactly what happens with the main characters. Time passes; Ennis looks back on the past and realizes that moments of absolute happiness are only grains of sand in a stream of his everyday life. If he collects all the photos, postcards and other trinkets that could become his symbols, this will not return the past. In the contemporary world, where there are no prohibitions on same-sex marriages, life of Ennis and Jack would be much better and happier. However, the past is very ruthless. Old times did not allow much things, and the sixties did not allow the guys to be together.
