A Separate Peace: Character Analysis, Plot Summary, General Analysis, and Alternate Ending

Characters
Gene Forrester
<Tab/>Forrester returns to his alma mater, Devon School, and recollects the story of his friend Finny. He is intelligent, yet obsessive and worrisome, and eventually develops a love-hate relationship with his friend whom he admires yet envies.
Finny
<Tab/>Confident, honest, good-looking, Finny is a very likeable person and the best athlete in the school. He connects with others by his thrill for life, and all though he is quick to transgress, he can talk his way out of any predicament. Finny sees no other human as an enemy and does…