A Separate Peace

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Jealous, jealousy-resentful or bitter in rivalry; envious. Gene is jealous about the fact that sports comes naturally to Finny, but in order to succeed in academics Gene needs to work arduously. In fact, Finny shows such expertise that he doesn't need any preparation to reign victorious in any specific sport, or to surpass old records, as seen in chapter two.

"I stopped and looked at him up and down. He didn't look directly back at me. "You're too good to be true," I said after a while.

He glanced at me, and them said, "Thanks a lot" in a somewhat expressionless voice.

Was he trying to impress me or something? Not tell anybody? When he had broken a school record without a day of practice?" (36)

Gene, on the other hand, can't do anything impressive without studying frequently. Gene studies almost like he is overzealous, and trying to become the class valedictorian. If he doesn't study for hours on one test he is going to fail. He can't just go to the test not prepared and ace it like Finny can with sports. This made Gene

jealous of Finny. Gene notices Finny's ability at sports and can see why he is jealous.

"He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he. I couldn't stand this.... Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud. It was the first clumsy physical action I had ever seen him make.(51-52)

Once jealousy took root in Gene, it distorted a friendship so severely, jealousy shattered the link between Gene and Finny. Gene recognizes that Finny, on the charts, places ahead of Gene constantly so he plans a plot to get "even".

"Yes." The doctor didn't look at me, and barely changed his tone of voice. "Sports are finished for him, after an accident like

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Approximate Word count = 702
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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