The underlying premise that “Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies” (by Aristotle) was not evidenced by Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace. My interpretation of Aristotle’s quote is that true friendship is a very deep bond that resides at a spiritual level between two friends. In other words, the bond of true friendship is so strong that the two friends are connected in a manner that defies physical boundaries and earthly limitations like the human body – even a broken one. True friends have a shared stream of conscientiousness that both can tap into. In A Separate Peace, Aristotle’s quote is not reflected as Gene was initially manipulated through peer pressure and then by his own guilt.
In the beginning of the story, Gene resented
In the beginning of the story, Gene resented