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Offline welshwitch

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Re: Ennis' Fierce and Possessive Love for Jack - Spoilers
« Reply #120 on: Jul 20, 2006, 12:41 PM »
The money doesn't enter the question for Jack and Lureen as far as we know, except that she controls it. For Alma it is a problem, since she has two children to look after, but Monroe and Ennis's payments solve that problem.

I don't know, and I don't know whether Jack wouild know, what he's get if he divorced Lureen - I bet they had no community property thing in Texas then - but if Ennis had asked him to come he'd have dropped Lureen and the business and gone straight to him, regardless of the financial implications, I think.

Offline gimmejack

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Re: Ennis' Fierce and Possessive Love for Jack - Spoilers
« Reply #121 on: Jul 20, 2006, 04:11 PM »
So your saying that Jack stayed married because of the money?
A marriage of convenience...the $$$ is just the icing on the cake.
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Offline jesseanne21

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Re: Ennis' Fierce and Possessive Love for Jack - Spoilers
« Reply #122 on: Jul 20, 2006, 04:30 PM »
So your saying that Jack stayed married because of the money?
A marriage of convenience...the $$$ is just the icing on the cake.

I think you're right.  Jack LIKED Lureen, but she LOVED him and  pursued him.  I also thought that maybe she got pregnant and they had to get married (hence L.D. Newsome's intense dislike for Jack).  In the ss Jack said he never really wanted any kids, but nothing worked out the way he wanted.

And, Jack would have left Lureen if Ennis was willing.


[they were] both high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life.   

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Offline gimmejack

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Re: Ennis' Fierce and Possessive Love for Jack - Spoilers
« Reply #123 on: Jul 20, 2006, 10:41 PM »
yep...in a heartbeat!
"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."
~Boethius~