johnny's Gun 6

joe starts tapping his head because it is the only way he thinks he can communicate. he tries using morris code to communicate with people around him. at first the nurse doesn't know what he is doing, she never really figures it out yet. in the end of the chapter she is a little closer to figuring it out, but she assumes too much. all he wants to do is have contact with the outside world. all he wants to do is communicate with someone. she mistakes this as discomfort, at first.  after she does everything she can think of and he is still tapping she tries something new. lastly, she mistakes his tapping for a need of sexual expression. when he realizes what she is doing he is disgusted, he didn't want her to do anything like that. all he wanted to do was to communicate with some one. 

he has been laying there almost lifeless for years, he is outraged that she mistook his need for basic communication for a sexual need.