The first character from A Separate Peace that shows a nice piece of evil, and of whom has a very large amount of evil grief in his heart in my opinion, is Quackenbush. Quackenbush is the head of the crew team at Devon School. He is always teased and harassed by the other students and consequently, Quackenbush has low self-esteem. He feels that by making fun of Gene, unleashing his inner evil, that it will make him feel better. You know how it is, someone makes you feel bad or very pissed off then sometimes you take it out on other people. The same idea is seen here with Quackenbush. For the time being it makes him feel big and important. The first incident is when Gene starts as the Assistant Crew Manager and Quackenbush is above him. "...'Get some towels'...'How many?'...'As many as you can carry. That won't be too many.'..." (69). Quackenbush hurts Gene another time too. After making fun of Gene, Gene

key remarks "Listen you maimed son-of-a-bitch..."(71). Then a fistfight breaks out between the two. Quackenbush doesn't like when Gene stands up for himself, he cannot stand it. Gene did not like that comment because Finny was at that time disabled. Quackenbush lets out his inner evil at Gene because he wants to feel important; that he has control over another human being's emotions.

Gene, the main character of this novel, is the third person who liberates his inner darkness. Gene has the most darkness out of the all the characters I have discoursed about. He thought Finny was trying to ruin him, by distracting him from his studies, to participate in jumping out of the tree every night during the Summer Session. "Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies. That explained blitzball... the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society...the insistence that I share all his diversions..." (45). Also he feels that there is this rivalry between the two. He thinks that Finny is jealous of him being smart, but actually it doesn't exist. "...What if [valedictorian] was my goal? After all, he should talk. He had won and been proud to win the Galbraith Football Trophy and the Contact Sport Award...If I was head of the class on Graduation Day and made a speech...then we would both come out on top, we would be even, that was all..." (43). Here is another example:"...The thought was, You and Phineas are even already...You did hate him for breaking that school

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Approximate Word count = 989
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)