How are Quinn’s feelings about his father being regarded as a hero different from what we might expect?

Quinn's feelings about his father's heroism are personal.... he doesn't feel as if he can live up to his father's legacy. Thus, although he is proud of his father, he is also made to feel inferior..... and he struggles to become what it expected of him.

I wasn’t a stand-in for Dad. Nobody could be that. When the IED got him in Afghanistan, he became an instant saint in Springfield. I wasn't him. I'd never be him. But I was still supposed to try. That was my role: the dutiful son, the All-American boy with an All-American fifteen-foot deadeye jump shot and an All-American 3.5 GPA.