Monster Essays - A Separate Peace: Antagonists and Gene
A Separate Peace: Antagonists and Gene
We all confront antagonists in everyday life. In John Knowles, A
Separate Peace, Gene, the protagonist confronts several different
antagonists as he tries to mature throughout the book. The antagonists
Finny, the war, and Gene’s own inner issues affect how fast he is able to
start this process of maturing. All of them developing him as a person.
Finny is one of the many antagonists who shows Gene’s maturing process
down by making all of Gene’s decisions for him. First, Finny pressures
Gene to climb up in a tree and jump into a r....
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