In the novel A Separate Peace, friendship plays an important role in Gene’s stay at Devon. Gene’s relationships with Finny, Brinker, and Leper are the ones that had the most significant impact on him. The friendship between Gene and Finny was extremely complex. At some points, you think that they are undoubtedly best friends, like when Gene and Finny had just jumped from the tree, and Finny stated, “It’s just you and …showed first 75 words of 597 total…

…showed last 75 words of 597 total…Brinker set up. This testimony was what made Finny realize that Gene had intentionally made him fall. I felt that Gene’s friendships with Finny, Brinker, and Leper all had a strong impact on his days at Devon. His clear memory, after fifteen years, of the events that took place with these friends, showed how much these boys not only meant to him then, but also how much they shaped the man he had become.