Gene's Jealousy in A Separate Peace by John Knowles

In John Knowles' novel 'Independent Peace', hero Jean Forest finds the true feelings of his friend Phineas and continues to struggle fighting himself in order to find out who he is I will. Jean and Phineas formed an illusion of companion, but within Jean's head there was always a quiet conflict between them. At the beginning, Jean thought that his feelings for Phineas was perfectly normal and that it will disappear over time. But as time passed, as genes matured, he discovered that his feelings were a bit more embarrassing, but he hated.

In John Knowles '"Independent Peace," Embarrassment against Gene' s Finney made Jean feel negative emotions. Jean's confusion against Finney, Jean felt uneasy about himself. Jean's embarrassment not only caused anxiety but also denied Gene the many things that happened to him. In addition to anxiety and denial, Jean jealousy also hated Finney to him. In John Knowles' Independence Peace ', Jean' s jealousy against Finney brought genetic insecurity, denial, hatred.

The classic 'A Separate Peace' of the boarding school of John Seles is a narrator's friendship story between academic achievement and sports leader Jean and Phineas. . Due to obsession, Jean discovered that he was involved in an accident that caused himself a serious injury to Phineas. In a psychically rich story full of homosexuality, Knowles uses this boy 's friendship to explore what trust, praise, anger, and what that means that it wants others' lives .

John Knowles' novel 'Independence Peace' reveals many dangers and difficulties of adolescence. The hero, Jean and Finney spent their summer at a boarding school called Devon. The two boys took everything together until the hero indigned against his friend Finney. The gene became very embarrassed, and caused this expression and eventually became fatal. - Battle between character and inner person Humans want to have personality. What is character? It can be thought of as a combination of the quality of one person and the other. Different is a part of human nature, but part of this nature is also a desire for social acceptance. Therefore, humans are always looking for ways to meet these two needs.