In the book A Separate Peace Finny has had his leg repaired but knows it will not be the same. He has to face life very differently now. Brinker has moved into Leper's room and jokes with Gene that he has the room to himself because of his roommates injury. He also makes some joking allegations about Gene's guilt towards Finny. While they are in the basement it is hard to like Gene very much. He is in the hot seat for having made Finny fall, but he jokes his way out of it.
"I had to take part in this, or risk losing control completely."(89)
Finny gained my sympathy after he was injured. Like many readers I had begun to realize that he had been handed a raw deal in life. He had been a good and outgoing person who was trusting. He was wounded by the person whom he trusted most. I liked him all the more because he had chosen not to believe that someone he cared about could have done something that had caused him to be severely injured.
In these two chapters the reader begins to question who Gene really has become. Gene is going to shovel some snow out for the railroad and will get paid for it. Leper sees him and shares that he will be going into the military.
At the end Finny returns and Gene is very happy. He begins to realize how much he and Finny are a part of one another.
"Everything that had happened throughout the day faded like that first false snowfall of the winter, Phineas was back."(102)
No comments:
Post a Comment