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In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a man named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in an attempt to find an inner peace with himself. While attending Devon, his high school, during World War Two, Gene's roommate and best friend Phi ....

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.... it in multiple places. Finny's perfection was the basis for Gene's resentment towards him. Gene envied everything that Finny did. Finny seemed to be so perfect to Gene. Finny was so confident that he didn't care what others thought about his appearance. One example was when Finny wore a pink shirt as an emblem of the bombing of central Europe. Gene told Finny, "' ...Pink! It makes you look like a fairy!" "Does it?'" he replied. "He used this preoccupied tone when he was thinking of something more interesting than what you had said," commented Gene. Another example of this occurred when Finny and Gene were at the school swimming pool when Finny h ....