What was your opinion about his family’s reaction to Ben’s injury (“Everyone in his family apart from Fran…believed in stoicism as if it were a religion” p. 82)? How do you think they helped or hurt his healing?

What was your opinion about his family’s reaction to Ben’s injury (“Everyone in his family apart from Fran…believed in stoicism as if it were a religion” p. 82)? How do you think they helped or hurt his healing?