Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx is essentially a love story, told through the imagery of nature and simple words suited to the cowboys who are our sad protagonists. Masked by the straightforward style is a complex commentary on our culture and the expectations that come with our gender roles – roles that history shows have little to offer. The gender binaries in Brokeback Mountain are rigid and fixed by signifiers, these signifiers do not allow the characters (male or female) to experience their true nature – which for the most part is a balancing act between masculine and feminine traits. It is not surprising that the two cowboys spend most of their intimate and relaxed moments in nature, far from civilization and its expectations. The natural setting of these moments could be seen as an interpretation of the feminist statement carried forward by Beauvoir and expanded by Wittig: “You are not born, but you become a woman”. This means, of course, that gender is a social construct and not determined by biology (Barthes, R., & Lavers, A., 1972). The fact is that the emotions between Ennis and Jack are not exclusive to one gender, and the problems that arise in their relationships with each other – and their relationships with others occur largely because of expectations about what it meant to be men, in that time and in the lifestyle they lived. The gender binaries in Brokeback Mountain for both male and female characters pave the way for gender role elements to become an issue and gender roles to be reversed and since they were not born with their gender, rather they became the ​​their gender – their true nature (which is a mix of cultural gender traits) clashes with the binary boxes they have been placed in (Leitch, VB, 2010...... half of the document ..... .making big plans that no one took seriously. This goes against the gender binary that says men are more logical. Ennis embodies that logic, giving Jack valid reasons why he can't meet him as often as he would like Ennis's logic angers Jack and this leads to another element of female reality that Jack exhibits (Leitch, 2010). References Barry, P. (2009). : Manchester University Press; Barthes, R. and Lavers, A. (1972). Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang Leitch, V. B. (2010). The Second Sex Chapter XI. Myth and reality, Monique Wittig, You are not born a woman, .. Norton's anthology of theory and criticism (2nd ed.,). New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. Proulx, A. (2005). Brokeback Mountain at Close Range: Wyoming Stories. New York: Scribner.