No he was shocked about henry kissing and confessing to him. He was angry I guess as well. Flustered cause he never noticed and things suddenly made sense. And I mean being kissed against your consent isn’t nice no? Especially when you are in love with your partner. Anyway. So he left that day angry and went to see Janet to say godbye to tell her everything and then say goodbye to her. Janet thought he went to Henry to tell him everything is ok and he isn’t upset or leaving because of him, but because he just really wants to participate. Because back then men were always tricked by some fucked up romanticism to lure them into fighting in wars even though wars were no longer necessary for just sheer survival but plain business at that point. Anyway. So Henry was traumatised by the war badly. And he went into fits whenever he saw Henry. Not because he wanted to. Or meant what he said. He was having fits due to the ptsd. Men like this will do this to their loved ones. Is very common that soldiers and veterans abused their family. All cause their ptsd went untreated and unsupervised. Anyway. As we know dude was a really good guy, so when he regained a moment of clarity I guess he hated himself so bad for all the things he did at the war and he now did to Henry that he couldn’t bear it and he found a gun at that moment and ended his suffering. If he didn’t find one and people helped him through the suicidal urge he might have survived…
and as we find out in the end, he is just a dumb idiot who got even dumber from the ptsd
Im still confused about Tom's character, idk maybe i missed a chapter or didn't read it well but i don't get it did he like henry or something that's why he almost kill himself and then he came back like nothing happen