 What is significant about Wayne’s averse reaction to witnessing the stewbum beating?
They were squareheads one and all, marking moron time in a gray dream. Squareheads going around either unconscious or with eyes looking dead from the millennium in the office waiting to retire into limbo. "Thanks, sarge dear," Wayne said and took the elevator up to the Armory. 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. A copcar stopped Wayne as he started over the bridge, out of bright respectable neon into the murky westside slum over the river. Wayne waved the pass card, signed by Captain Jack, under the cop's quivering nose. His bearded face in dim breaking moonlight had a dirty, greenish tinge as he sensed Wayne there.
 It foreshadows that Wayne will not be able to go through with his kill
 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