As if we see Ennis wearing mainly in blue or grey when Jack is not by his side;a kind of remembering what or who we love by wearing their clothings?.Very true. And now, I'm sorry Ennis didn't get the hat, any maybe other clothing, along with the shirts. Annie has Ennis lost in feverish dreams, at the end. The shirts were a sacred treasure so they could not be risked, but, and I apolgize for the romanticism, it's sad there were no other pieces of clothing Ennis could have clung to as he tossed and turned in a delirium, night after night. Something to comfort him, for it was a very great love.
Dear Sam - no, didn't notice that. But it would have some unusual meaning, as Jack had moved on some financial success, and his keeping that older hat just might be like....his keeping the shirts. Maybe everything from the time on the mountain was a relic or a treasure.
Yeah, it would have been nice if Ennis had also found Jack's old hat in the closet! But I guess the shirts worked as well. As for keeping something to remind him of happier times up on the mountain, that's cool too. I suppose we have all done that at some point in our lives (like I said, I still have a hat from when I was 15).
Come to think of it, I think it would be nice that Jack wore the hat. Maybe Ennis appreciated moments like that too.
-samwise
Good observation samwise. I’m guessing that this is quite intentional on the part of the late Marit Allen (costume designer). Hats are mentioned only a few times in the short story and always specifically to make a point, as Annie is so spare in her writing. One of these few mentions of hats is during the 1967 reunion scene when she describes Ennis’ first view of Jack after four years:
Late in the afternoon, thunder growling, that same old green pickup rolled in and he saw Jack get out of the truck, beat up Resistol tilted back. A hot jolt scalded Ennis . . .
It seems this same hat, or at least the same style hat, is significant in Ennis’ image of Jack. Like so many aspects of the film it may or may not be “real” but the image Ennis maintains of Jack in his head is what is significant. In the movie reunion Jack's NOT wearing the same black hat you spotted in this later fishin' trip. The reappearance of this black hat in multiple movie scenes was probably intended to reinforce the idea that Ennis’s view of Jack was an unchanging or static one. (also it makes Jake look so damn sexy!) JMHO
. . . Come to think of it, my image of Jack is tied visually and emotionally to the hat . . .
Very true thomas. Case in point:
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Compared to:
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi139.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq313%2Fjackster545%2FJacksanhat.jpg&hash=f3aee15135a13f86782ff499420cf5b7fdfb3044)
It almost seems that this is a picture of someone else, it's not Jack at all without the hat.