why did Hank leave the house after the Disney scene??

I'm just guessing that he couldn't take the pressure of being around a dying woman and was upset about what his mom told him about his father beating him. After leaving and thinking he came to realization that his mom would not lie to him about a thing like that and really always knew it was true and that it was his denial keeping the truth away from him. He also probably had the heart to come back thinking that he could still possibly help his Aunt that he realizes truly does love him survive her illness.

Does that make sense? In all honesty this is not my kind of movie never been into tear jerkers but something kept me watching and for some reason I felt I had to check out the board on the movie:)

I think when he split, he was just running away from the whole big messy situation because it was easiest not to deal with any of it. That's what his mother had done--bailed out when the going got rough with her father's illness and left her sister to take care of everything.

But then it turned out that Lee had stepped up for her child when he was being abused. I'm sure Hank had all kinds of confusion and guilt about the years he'd idolized his father and despised his mother.

I don't know if Lee had earned Hank's resentment by telling him a million times that it was his fault she was having a crappy life, trying to scrape by as a single mother, but she obviously hadn't told him about the dad beating him, so that was generous of her.

At any rate, he decided to come back and step up.

It's interesting to consider that he probably thought he was coming back to save Bessie's life with a bone marrow donation and not the much harder, drawn-out experience of accompanying her through her terminal illness to her death.