Question

why did one of the passengers say about parental love?​

Answer 1

The passenger fat man is railing on quite extensively about how kids are meant to be sacrificed in the ways of war and how parents should stand by and be in the position to embrace this. He, the fat man, did this and others should be able to do this, as well. The woman, who is wrestling with this same dilemma. She asks her question to both serve as confirmation of the fat man's beliefs. It seems to me that it is almost asked as if she were saying, "And you are ok with your son being dead?" In another way, she might be asking her question to bring to light the ultimate truth in war: "Then is your son really dead?" I take this to be an expression of the notion of death being the only absolute that can be taken in a war. ..