Oddly, too, while I'm a Jake fan, I don't see Jack as anything like as heroic as Ennis. sure, Jack nearly starved, according to his own account, while he was rodeoing for a couple of years, but after he married Lureen, his material needs were well catered for, and as can be seen in his scenes with Ennis he always had good clothes, recent trucks, etc. ennis, by contrast, stuck with his wife and children, stuck with the badly-paid tiring temporary jobs so that he could see Jack periodically, stuck with his child-support payments, and apart from meeting Jack appears never to have had much pleasure or even comfort in his life - even from Cassie.

Don't care.