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In this conversation, Carrie and Rudyard discuss whether or not Jack is too young to join the military. Carrie tries to make Rudyard see that he’s exerting too much pressure on the boy, who is still just a teenager. But Rudyard refuses to see it this way, instead thinking only about how best to turn Jack into a tough, honorable man.
When Rudyard says that Jack will become “weak and watery” if Carrie continues to “pamper” him, he implies that Carrie is overattentive and that this will make Jack too sensitive. The idea here is that—according to Rudyard—young men ought…