Meet the Cast
Ennis Del Mar
While this may be a story about the love between Ennis and Jack, Ennis is our main man. Why's that? Well, to out it frankly, it's because he's the only one of the two main characters who isn't dead...
Jack Twist
Jack's a lot like Ennis in a lot of ways, since they're both "high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to...
Alma Beers
Alma is an easy face to put on the kind of disapproval that Jack and Ennis face (and oh yeah, the kind that gets Jack killed). But we also have to remember that she's Ennis's wife and has two littl...
Lureen
If we don't see much of Alma, we see even less of Lureen. Basically, she's just a "little voice" (133) on the other end of the phone. The suspicion, however, is that she's in the same boat as Alma...
Joe Aguirre
Joe is Jack and Ennis's boss on Brokeback Mountain. Like most of the other supporting characters, he seems to represent society's prejudice… in a very passive way. He spots Jack and Ennis cavorti...
Jack's Mother and Father
Ennis meets Jack's mom and dad at the end of the story, when he comes to ask them if he can have their half of Jack's ashes. Jack's dad possesses "the hard need to be the stud duck in the pond" (13...