i dont think that jake and ennis are closeted, and i think their wives know--and i think that figuring out what is allowed and what isnt, what is adultery is and what it isnt, and what sex b/w men means is the impotant thing here--eve kolsvosky sedgewick talked about the transparent closet, adn how being closeted, was not a dichtomoy, but like everything else w. untraditional sexuality a series of rituals of disclosure...the rituals now are codifired, then they were not.