Answer:
- He pretended to be proud and happy
- He was actually overcome with grief
Step-by-step explanation:
In this short story titled War by Luigi Pirandello, we see parents whose sons are at war as they debate on the pain that it brings to see their sons go off to war.
As they bemoaned the experience, the Fat man interjected angrily and told them that they should be happy as he was if their sons were to die in war because they would die heroes who would have been spared the ugliness of life.
It turned out that he had only fooled himself into believing this because when a woman on board asked him if his son was truly dead, only then did it hit him that he would never see his son again and his true feelings of grief came out as he sobbed uncontrollably.