Gene is is jealous for his best friend, Finny. Gene hurts Finny sheerly from jealousy. After Gene unconsciously hurts Finny, he feels guilty and feels the need to change so. However, Gene still feels guilty for Finny, and he remembers this throughout his life. Gene, is a grown man who returns to the Devon School to remember those years. Mostly in this book, Gene is around 16 years old, he is intelligent, and has a tendency to dwell on some things. Gene is very competitive and has a sarcastic sense to him.
Gene’sbest friend is Finny. Finny is the perfect guy to his friends at Devon. He is honest, handsome, confident, easily likable, as well as the best athlete in the entire school. Finny lives for moments of friendship, and his loyalty is apparent to anybody. He’s rebellious, but he’s so good at talking through his troubles that he gets into often. …show more content…
The two boys both have their own highly different personalities. This means they begin to get jealous of the others gifts. In the book Gene realizes that Finny is extremely jealous of his gifts and tries many different ways to ruin Gene. An example is when Finny convinced Gene to go to the beach and kept him up all night, which caused Gene to get a bad grade on his trigonometry test the next morning. When Finny increases his studying, Gene thinks this as an attempt to make him forget. Finny does as Gene does, and their friendship halted . The idea of friendship itself slips away for Gene, and feels he can trust no
Gene’sbest friend is Finny. Finny is the perfect guy to his friends at Devon. He is honest, handsome, confident, easily likable, as well as the best athlete in the entire school. Finny lives for moments of friendship, and his loyalty is apparent to anybody. He’s rebellious, but he’s so good at talking through his troubles that he gets into often. …show more content…
The two boys both have their own highly different personalities. This means they begin to get jealous of the others gifts. In the book Gene realizes that Finny is extremely jealous of his gifts and tries many different ways to ruin Gene. An example is when Finny convinced Gene to go to the beach and kept him up all night, which caused Gene to get a bad grade on his trigonometry test the next morning. When Finny increases his studying, Gene thinks this as an attempt to make him forget. Finny does as Gene does, and their friendship halted . The idea of friendship itself slips away for Gene, and feels he can trust no