Clare’s discomfort at Henry’s willingness to commit violence indicates her maturity, but it also betrays her youthful lack of self-awareness—she
herself seemed to take pleasure in seeing Henry hurt Jason, yet she doesn’t seem to register this hypocrisy. Henry, on the other hand, is an adult—and should have more control over his actions. Jason’s behavior was wrong, but responding to violence with more violence is an arguably flawed and inadequate response to injustice.