If you ever decide to visit 'Brokeback Mountain', you'll find a deep melancholy rooted in two people who must live in such hidden circumstances simply to love each other at all. There's a deep sense of sorrow in a deceased Jack Twist, whose vacuumisin the lives of his wife and secret lover at once hurting and permanent. His wife Jack Twist died in an unexpected tire incident where a tire rim exploded and hit him with enough force to cause head wounds. Lureen: No way Lorraine!! Of course life as an instant widow is tortuous---my husband was killed by a "freak accident" or just by carelessness, and if that doesn't make you feel bad too then what will? The blow hit Ennis Del Mar, Jack's clandestine lover, like a bolt from the blue; and it kept him hurt forevermore. Jack's early death speaks for itself: life is fragile, love is occasionally brutal to its threads that tie us together with other people and all that we hold dear. It's a constant ache of unrequited longings, unsaid words and a reminder that Annie Proulx is among the best living storytellers around. We can read the book again and again--but, even in death, as long as Zorba is sitting there on our bookshelf then Jack Twist remains in our hearts.