A Separate Peace: Gene And Finny's Relationship

Part I of Essay
Gene and Finny's relationship goes beyond friendship and pushes the boundaries of brotherhood, the two boys are most correctly described as part of one another. Each incident gives Gene strange feeling that Phineas is part of him. As Gene puts away his suspicious doubts of ....

Part II of Essay
.... your best pal...which is what you are..." In that passage their relationship has taken on a greater meaning; from that point on they are emotionally attached. After Finny's first accident, the relationship grows stronger. "Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas." Gene begins to feel that Phineas is part of him. "Finny had deliberately set out to wreck m ....