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The third and final one is that Helen doesn't deserve a wonderful man like Henry. The second one is that abusive marriages can also hurt men, and the man shouldn't be blamed for that. The first one is that Helen is solely to blame for her cruelty, not Henry.
These points lead me to three conclusions. That proves that he cares about her and loves her. Unfortunately for him, his wife is a cruel, abusive woman, and she was giving him false hope so she could see the hurt look on his face when he realizes what she did. He believes her because he hopes that she actually loves him, and he wants to share his passions with her. The first one is when he believes his wife when she plays that cruel joke on him. Either that, or he loves her and hopes that she will be nicer to him. From the little that I can see from his marriage, it is clear that Henry may have low self esteem. In an abusive relationship, the abused spouse might believe that it is his/her's fault, thanks to his/her spouse's degradation, insults and attacks to their self esteem. I would love to say that if I ever married or dated and my husband or boyfriend did that to me, I'd stand up to him, but I don't know. What if he stood up to her, then what?! She might have hurt him. If Henry was Henrietta, would you be blaming her for her husband's cruelty?! It's not Henry's fault that his wife is a bully. I sympathize with him because his creator, the writer, clearly hates him and seeks to torment him from start to finish. So I guess I do sympathize with him after all, not because of the other characters, or the horrendous fate that befalls him. If it's intended to be some sort of tragedy… well, good tragedy has a point. As annoying as I find him, he doesn't deserve this fate. No, this is something else altogether: it constitutes a writer's contempt for his or her protagonist on a quantum level. And for what? Some vague commentary on the evils of nuclear arms? Jesus, give the guy radiation poisoning if that's your angle. The breaking of his glasses is quite literally a death sentence. He's not going to make it off those library steps without falling and cracking his skull and, even if he does, he'll never find his way back to the food supply he's squirreled away. We've already seen how bad his eyesight is without them, thanks to a clever POV shot earlier.
The tragedy isn't limited to the loss of a lifetime of literary joy. He discovers the ruins of the local library, gathers up enough books to last him for years, and then…. After all that (as if "all that" weren't enough), my single biggest problem with the episode is the cruelty with which the protagonist is ultimately dispatched.
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