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Theme Of Jealousy In A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles has several themes. The main theme is jealousy. Gene faces many moments of pure fire and heat that radiates from him, that are pure jealousy. The whole battle of Finny and his leg began when Gene’s jealousy got the best of him. In moments when we let jealousy get the best of us, it has the tendency to turn everything sour. Jealousy is a blinding and powerful emotion.
Gene had several moments of jealousy in the novel, A Separate Peace. Gene never dislikes Phineas, Gene is just simply jealous of Phineas. Gene is in a way “obsessed” with Phineas, if you will. The way Gene speaks of Phineas and everything he says and does always leads straight back to Finny. One example that conveys this is when Gene says, “I was
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