In the novel A Separate Peace, there are four main characters that embody the four main parts of society. Gene represents the evil or hell, Brinker Handley represents the government, Leper represents nature, and Finny, represents the good or Christ. I have noticed that all of the characters in this novel have been given a last name. However, there is one exception. Finny (Phineas) was never given a last name. He has always just been Finny. Strikingly, like Christ, Finny neither has nor needs a last name. Whenever Finny is addressed in the book, it is identical to "Finny, I tried to tell you before…" (Knowles 189).

Finny, has never had to make an effort to do anything. Everything he does just comes to him and he normally is the best at everything. "You always win at sports…when you played a game you won…it inevitably flowed" (Knowles 35). This shows that everything comes natural to him. Things that people have to work for, he just wakes up and decides to do them. "I have a......

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Title: A Separate Peace Essay
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