The Lie Behind the Postcard-The road to Riverton
They left his trailer at 7:00a.m. On which would be a two hours drive to the Riverton Hospital.
Ennis was looking through the window of Junior’s car to the horses, mares and the cows that were on the sides of the road and he remembered that time when Lureen told him about Jack’s death and he went and drove the road to Lightning Flat through a desolate country past and how he passed a dozen abandoned ranches distributed over the plane at eight- and ten-mile intervals houses. He still remembered when he saw on a Mailbox with the name John C. Twist, he couldn’t forget that meager little place where Jack was born and in which he grew up. When Ennis met jack parents he couldn’t see much of Jack in either of them. He told them how sorry he felt about Jack and that he was willing to grant Jack wishes spread his ashes in Brokeback Mountain
“Tell you what, I know where Brokeback Mountain is, he thought he was too g’ddamn special to be buried in the family plot” the old man told him that day.
Ennis remembered how different were Mrs. Twist from her husband she was kind and a nice lady and did the best to make him feel comfortable on that house.
“Ennis del Mar, he used to say, I’m going to bring him up here one of these days and we’ll lick this damn ranch into shape. He had some half-baked idea that the tow a you was going a move up here, build a log cabin and help me run this ranch and bring it up….”The old man told him that and also told him about that Texas neighbor that Jack was planning to move with.
That day he found the shirts on Jack’s closet the two of them as one skin. Jack’s mother let him keep them and his father told Ennis that he was going to put Jack in the Family plot.
“You come again” said Jack’s mother and he did came back the next year and he found out that the old John Twist died of Pneumonia four months later of his visit. He tried to help her but she just told him “I’ve being here so long with John that I can’t live without his presence now” Ennis understood it and went back to Wyoming, Mrs. Twist died 2 weeks later after Ennis’s visit.
It could have being that she loved her husband or that she was used to him but she can’t face a life without him. Twist’s ranch passed over the hands of Lureen and he never went back
Ennis was looking at the window and he saw on the clouds and image of what looks like a horse and he laugh he remembered that time in Brokeback when that mare threw Jack.
“It is good to see ya’ smilin’ Daddy, long time, since I saw ya’ smiling” Alma Jr. Said
“I was thinkin’ in an old memory” he said still looking at the sky trying to find a cloud with Jack’s eagle feather shape.
“Thinking about Jack Twist I guess” she said smiling and placed her right hand on his shoulder and looked at him.
“I indeed was thinkin’ in him, Junior and I don’t feel ashamed of that” he said fixing his hat.
“Ya’ don’t have to be ashamed of nothin’’” his daughter replied back.
That 1988 white car was now about 1 mile of the hospital and was playing a song that affected Ennis it was “He was a friend of mine”
Alma Jr. and Ennis landed at the hospital she parked the car next to a tree because she said it was more easy for her. They both came out of the car walked inside the hospital.
Ennis was feeling bad now, not bad in the way that he was sick, he was feeling scared, he was thinking that Alma was going to blame him of the fight and that she was going to tell him that if she dies it would be his fault.