Ennis del Mar once said in the short story “Brokeback Mountain” that “if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it” (85). Though the narrator judges the incomplete relationship between Ennis and Jack and Ennis’s inability to accept his homosexuality, this powerful statement functions as a message throughout the statement and applies to another character in the same short story: Alma Beers. Alma, who is Ennis’s beloved spouse, play a different role in both Anne Proulx’s short story, “Brokeback Mountain,” and Ang Lee’s Oscar nominated film, Brokeback Mountain. Lee gives an interpretation of Alma in which he characterizes this female character with a more forceful nature that embodies Ennis’s statement, whereas Proulx offers her readers a more subtle
