How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Brokeback Mountain.
Quote #7
ENNIS: No, I told you, it ain't gonna be that way. You know, you got your wife and baby in Texas, and you know, I got my life in Riverton.
JACK: Is that so? You and Alma, that's a life?
ENNIS: Now you shut up about Alma. This ain't her fault. The bottom line is, we're around each other and this thing grabs hold of us again, the wrong place, in the wrong time, we're dead.
This exchange is almost a 180 from the "stuck with" quote of before. By this point, Ennis has convinced himself that he is happy with Alma because he has no other alternative.
Quote #8
ENNIS: If you don't want no more of my kids, I'll be happy to leave you alone.
ALMA: I'd have 'em if you'd support 'em.
JUDGE: Defendant is ordered to pay child support to plaintiff in the sum of $125 per month, for each of the minor children, until they reach the age of eighteen years. Divorce granted, this 6th day of November, 1975.
Ennis and Alma's divorce seems to happen fast, but it was brewing for years. Alma wants a family more than anything else…one that doesn't include a husband who is having an affair with another man. She just needs a better excuse to divorce him, because Ennis doesn't know that Alma knows his secret.
Quote #9
JACK: Now you sit down, you old son of a b****! This is my house, this is my child, and you are my guest! Now you sit down, before I knock your ignorant ass into next week.
Jack yelling at his father-in-law is cathartic for Jack, because this is probably something Jack has always wanted to say to his own father. This "kills" Jack's father, metaphorically, because it puts his father issues to rest, and it's the last we see of Jack's father-in-law. Even Lureen likes seeing her own dad get told off by her husband.