A Separate Peace: Finny - How Things Change
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In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene
visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace.
While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's
best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. P ....
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.... the novel.
Finny's seeming perfection was the basis for Gene's resentment towards
him. Gene thought that everything Finny did was perfect, which just upset Gene
all the more. Finny was so perfect that he didn't care what others thought,
like when Finny wore a pink shirt as an emblem after the bombing of central
Europe. " '...Pink! It makes you look like a fairy!' 'Does it?' He used this
preoccupied tone when he was thinking of something more interesting than what
you had said." One ti ....
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