Front and center is Quoyle, an unprepossessing hulk with a 'monstrous chin,' who goes from a loveless childhood in. Key Words: Trans-corperality, body, nature, heteronormativity, civilization. Life was hard for Proulxs people in Heart Songs (1988) and Postcards (1991), and its no easier for them in this dreary second novel, as they battle the elements (and their private demons) in Newfoundland. Homosexuality is seen as an attack on the ideal classifications of the patriarchal ideology and heteronormative qualities.
The reason for being stuck in the closet is related to the fact that gay people are accepted as “ ‘foreigners’ in their own culture and are reminded of this fact at every opportunity” (Jay&Young, 1992, p.21). Hence it stands for their free queer space as an opposition to the socially constructed traditional gender roles while civilization stands for their forced heterosexual space and idea of being stuck in the closet. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life- his elderly aunt and two young. Nature presents an egalitarian attitude destroying all restrictions, definitions, distinctions and classifications. It focuses upon two powers in the lives of people nature versus civilization. This study intends to discuss and refer to homosexual concepts by taking the nature as a primary concept in order to shed light both on the characters’ love affair in nature and their alienated selves in civilization. Brokeback Mountain, written by Annie Proulx, depicts the lives of two gay men Ennis and Jack. Simon and Schuster, 1994 - Fiction- 337 pages. Annie Proulxs vigorous, quirky novel The Shipping News, set in present-day Newfoundland, there are indeed a lot of drownings.
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