Gene's Personality In 'A Separate Peace'

When two best friends go against each other, there was a major reason to set both, or at least one. In the novel “A Separate Peace”, two best friends’ friendship is threatened and broken. Gene, an intelligent and complicated teen grows jealous of his free spirited, athletic best friend Finny, and his motive to bring him down to Gene’s level of personality is a result of a cultural collision of self identity in adolescence. Gene’s ways of being self conscious and anxious is similar to a teen entering adulthood ,as with Finny’s ways of being carefree and vibrant is one of a untroubled young teen , bringing identity into question for Gene

Gene has the culture of a typical teenager in his adolescence descending to adulthood- nervous, anxious and

Finny doesn't have the same anxiety and nervousness as Gene, as he is a rare breed of a person and unique, according to Gene. Finny isnt filled in stress and breaks rules, along with the way of talking out of situations. He never sees Gene as jealous to him, only a friend he will always trust. Finny has the culture of a young teen, the ideals of not being yet ready to identify the world as cruel, which makes him vulnerable to Gene always hurting him. His social personality of viewing the world as friend instead of an enemy differs from Gene who recognizes the world in war, in a way, he isn't near adulthood, as it requires responsibility, knowing what is going on around them and how to respond to it. Finny breaks his leg, he then puts himself into Gene, training him for the olympics. This shows Finny depends on Gene for his identity, after learning he can't be the athletic superhuman he was, he wonders who he is next. He then experiences identity into question, forcing his old one to Gene. When his culture of a young teen who sees everything as trustworthy instead of an enemy collides with one who does, the vulnerability takes effect and he responds by refusing to see Gene as an