Henry’s suicide is a difficult action to interpret. Is he trying to save his friends? Is he sick of life? Something else? One compelling theory is that he wants to differentiate himself from Julian. Julian was a charismatic leader, but his rhetoric was ultimately empty; he turned out to be entirely self-absorbed. Henry, who admires Julian, does not want to do the same thing to his friends as Julian did to him. As such, he attempts to save them by sacrificing himself, proving that he was, in some regards, a leader worthy of respect.