Brokeback Mountain is the story of Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar, two young Wyoming natives who connect sexually and emotionally one summer while working on a ranch. The story goes on to chronicle their lives as they conform to the heteronormative culture around them, getting married and fathering children. They reconnect periodically on camping trips, but conflicts inevitably arise from their dalliance and eventually their lives unravel. Jack dies, either in an accident or in a gang beating, and Ennis is left to mourn him.
The adaptation of Brokeback Mountain from short story to film was incredibly accurate It is the tale of two young men who find themselves alone in there respected lives and only find solace comfort and contentment when they are together The insurmountable odds against them individually are still not enough to bring them together They try to deny and ignore their attraction and need for one another in excuses of irrational society norms and mainstream obligations they have both accepted in order