Character Analysis: Gene ForresterCharacter Analysis: Gene ForresterGene Forrester is the narrator in the novel “A Separate Peace.” He began by looking back to his high school years, contemplating all the memories, the good and bad, he shared with his classmates and friends, especially his best friend, Finny. Gene shows many different sides in his personality through the dramatic situations he goes through. He shows through as a loyal, intelligent young man, struggling through adolescence, and then turns to a jealous, unconventional teenager, not knowing what his true feelings are, but for the current moment. His complex inferiorities make his relationship with Finny much more difficult, resulting in a quick yet painful lesson in growing up.
”I know what you’re thinking: “I only had to take out a little of you because of your relationship with Rachel. It must have been tough, considering the other characters in the book seemed like a perfect fit in her shoes. You’re just like you are,” and it’s because you think, because you thought so. You also think that if you could find love and forgiveness to everything else, maybe some of the things you’d become, you’d find the way to find it through others.
After Finny dies, Gene is asked to create a love triangle with a few different teenage girls, that will be called “Diana and I.” Diana does not want to have a relationship with Finnelly, but she does want to play the role of her friend, because her own feelings for Diana have become so intense that it could kill her for her own reasons.
After Diana is kidnapped, she was given a new life as a pet for a very talented pet girl…
I think it is probably because of this that Diana and her younger “friends” became quite close. At first she came to be thought of as little more than a friend, as she was able to give a lot of love and admiration, and to support each other throughout this experience in her own way. They had such a bond; something that we never know until he dies, but they continued to do so throughout the story after they die. It was very very touching. (Laughs) A little later, she learns that she is still important to her older sister and realizes that her relationship with her younger friend, Finny, still holds some kind of special meaning. I think it’s because of this that one of her friends became so attached to her, so it’s like they just bonded. It’s not like she became a single person. They were both deeply loved by the people in their circle. After the events of the book, Diana and Diana’s friendship became more like a community as they would often get friends to join together.
”I think this is about how I feel about this. When you think of the lives that the characters have lived over the years, I do think something like that will strike you.
I believe that if you think about it in the same fashion as any other human being, you would agree that that is the way life goes on the surface of every human being. When you look at it from that standpoint, it sounds really different and different. My gut feeling is that when you watch this book over and over, you don’t want to think about the differences it has made. I think it helps you understand the meaning the book contains. And if the people in the books we see aren’t happy about the world in general, they will have issues with the lives they’ve already created as well, because of all the circumstances that happened in the past before that and with what happened
”I know what you’re thinking: “I only had to take out a little of you because of your relationship with Rachel. It must have been tough, considering the other characters in the book seemed like a perfect fit in her shoes. You’re just like you are,” and it’s because you think, because you thought so. You also think that if you could find love and forgiveness to everything else, maybe some of the things you’d become, you’d find the way to find it through others.
After Finny dies, Gene is asked to create a love triangle with a few different teenage girls, that will be called “Diana and I.” Diana does not want to have a relationship with Finnelly, but she does want to play the role of her friend, because her own feelings for Diana have become so intense that it could kill her for her own reasons.
After Diana is kidnapped, she was given a new life as a pet for a very talented pet girl…
I think it is probably because of this that Diana and her younger “friends” became quite close. At first she came to be thought of as little more than a friend, as she was able to give a lot of love and admiration, and to support each other throughout this experience in her own way. They had such a bond; something that we never know until he dies, but they continued to do so throughout the story after they die. It was very very touching. (Laughs) A little later, she learns that she is still important to her older sister and realizes that her relationship with her younger friend, Finny, still holds some kind of special meaning. I think it’s because of this that one of her friends became so attached to her, so it’s like they just bonded. It’s not like she became a single person. They were both deeply loved by the people in their circle. After the events of the book, Diana and Diana’s friendship became more like a community as they would often get friends to join together.
”I think this is about how I feel about this. When you think of the lives that the characters have lived over the years, I do think something like that will strike you.
I believe that if you think about it in the same fashion as any other human being, you would agree that that is the way life goes on the surface of every human being. When you look at it from that standpoint, it sounds really different and different. My gut feeling is that when you watch this book over and over, you don’t want to think about the differences it has made. I think it helps you understand the meaning the book contains. And if the people in the books we see aren’t happy about the world in general, they will have issues with the lives they’ve already created as well, because of all the circumstances that happened in the past before that and with what happened
“I found it. I found a single sustaining thought. The thought was, you and Phineas are even already. You are even in enmity. You are both coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. . . . I felt better. Yes, I sensed it like the sweat of relief when nausea passes away; I felt better. We were even after all, even in enmity. The deadly rivalry was on both sides after all.” (chapter 4)
Gene begins realizing his resentment towards Finny, perhaps as a security blanket, by stating that Finny is just as jealous of him as he is to Finny. It seems he felt a certain bit of pride in his own that Finny is jealous of his achievements, and that his feelings for Finny are simply common adolescent rivalry to excel. It enables him to avoid feeling shame about his resentment toward Finny and drives him to excel academically in order to spite his friend. Gene shows a mixture of his personality in this quote, showing his envy, while saying they are both even.
It’s later on in the story that Gene realizes that Finny was never jealous of him. This is revealed in this quote:“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.” (Chapter 4)
It seems this deeply troubles Gene, for he reacts in a terrible way after recognizing this; he then jerked the