Character Analysis Of Jealousy In A Separate Peace By John Knowles
War With Jealousy Gene Forrester is a high school boy who goes through a war with jealousy. Jealousy, according to Wikipedia, is mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness. Through the the novel "A Separate peace" by John Knowles, Gene meets Phineas who is going to be one of his best friends. This boy will not only start a war that gene will be fighting with himself, he will also stop it and free him of it. Gene starts a love hate relationship with Finny ( short for Phineas) with the hat gearing more toward jealousy. Finny Is good at sports and always gets away with things. Finny was always around gene and his smile never faded, he was good at making Gene feel like a brother to him, if not a great friend.
Gene grows a cluster of emotions towards Finny that he can't necessarily describe. That emotion that he feels is his jealousy towards his very successful friend. Gene is a very sophisticated young boy in high school, who came from the country and was sent to Devon for a brighter education. Think of Gene as being the kid in school who always works hard, and everyone knows it, always getting A's and being congratulated. He must have not thought that there would have been another boy that was more acknowledged than him and practically good at everything Gene was not. …show more content…
Because Gene was so suspicious of his friends being a revival it made him feel guilty and very ashamed of his actions and what he did to someone who honestly didn't deserve it at all. "and I thought we were competitors, it was so ludicrous I wanted to cry" (Knowles 58). Gene knows that Phineas is his friend and Gene also knows that Phineas isn't the kind of person who wouldn't put competition before friendship. Gene knows this so well that he thought it was silly that he ever assumed they were competitors, he wanted to cry about
Gene grows a cluster of emotions towards Finny that he can't necessarily describe. That emotion that he feels is his jealousy towards his very successful friend. Gene is a very sophisticated young boy in high school, who came from the country and was sent to Devon for a brighter education. Think of Gene as being the kid in school who always works hard, and everyone knows it, always getting A's and being congratulated. He must have not thought that there would have been another boy that was more acknowledged than him and practically good at everything Gene was not. …show more content…
Because Gene was so suspicious of his friends being a revival it made him feel guilty and very ashamed of his actions and what he did to someone who honestly didn't deserve it at all. "and I thought we were competitors, it was so ludicrous I wanted to cry" (Knowles 58). Gene knows that Phineas is his friend and Gene also knows that Phineas isn't the kind of person who wouldn't put competition before friendship. Gene knows this so well that he thought it was silly that he ever assumed they were competitors, he wanted to cry about