Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate Peace

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ourselves, are
they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they
mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene
thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This
time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming
unexpectedly excited at that."(page 20) This shows us that even though
they are friends, Gene feels that Finny is too perfect and he needs to see
a sign that he is human, that he is not the super-popular "benevolent" kid
everyone else thinks he is. "He had gotten away with everything. I felt a
sudden stab of disappointment."(page 21) Finny, like usual had finally
gotten himself out of a seemingly "sure catch."
Later on in the novel, Gene's inner torment finally gets the best
of him.
"Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my
knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head
around to look at me for and instant with extreme ...

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tell them long after the point it was
decided that Finny had just had an accident. Although later in the novel,
Elwin "Leper" Lepellier accuses Gene of "jouncing the limb,"(page 137) Gene
never tells the truth, even to Finny himself. Finny and the others
"interrogate" Gene if he saw what happened that terrible day, but Gene just
scoffs and forgets they asked (page162). The inner torment that continues
when Gene finds out he destroyed Finny's dream of fighting in the war(page
182), the pain rises inside of him and the guilt begins to win his war.
When Gene and Finny discuss the accident after Finny breaks his leg the
second time, and Gene admits to what he had done, Finny naturally ...

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