question:  What is significant about Wayne’s averse reaction to witnessing the stewbum beating?
context: [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1962. Wayne, unseen, sneered down from the head of the stairs. They were squareheads one and all, marking moron time in a gray dream. You got to remember about all these dangerous repressed impulses piling up with nowhere to go, like they say. What do we know about adolescent trauma and like that? Squareheads going around either unconscious or with eyes looking dead from the millennium in the office waiting to retire into limbo. Anyway there was no doubt about it when every move he made was a restrained explosion. He strode under a sign reading Public Youth Center No. 947 and walked casually to the reception desk, where a thin man with sergeant's stripes and a pansy haircut looked out of a pile of paperwork. Draft call." "Thanks, sarge dear," Wayne said and took the elevator up to the Armory. Finally he said, "So make up your mind, bud. "Hold your teeth, pop," Wayne said, coolly and slowly lighting a cigarette. You can get a cat, not a mouse, and some babes are clever hellcats in a dark alley." "A corporal with no hair and still a counterboy. The corporal waddled back with the revolver and the switchblade disguised in a leather comb case. He checked them on a receipt ledger, while Wayne examined the weapons, broke open the revolver, twirled the cylinder and pushed cartridges into the waiting chamber. He slung the holster under his left armpit and tested the spring clip release several times, feeling the way the serrated butt dropped into his wet palm. The big stone-walled office, alive with stuffed lion and tiger and gunracks, seemed to grow smaller. If he didn't watch himself he'd begin feeling like a pea among bowling balls. "Wayne Seton," said Captain Jack as if he were discussing something in a bug collection. His legs seemed sheathed in lead as he bit inwardly at shrinking fear the way a dog snaps at a wound.
output:  It foreshadows that Wayne will not be able to go through with his kill
options:  It foreshadows that Wayne will not be able to go through with his kill  It is symbolic for the inner rage bubbling within Wayne’s teenage brain.  It references the rage he feels toward his cowardly and stupid father  It foreshadows the violence Wayne will do to Red