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Gene Portrayed as "Everyman"
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In John Knowles’ “A Separate Peace” Gene is portrayed as “everyman” because every man is competitive, has tendencies to fail, and is jealous of others. When they were climbing the tree to do a double jump Gene showed signs of man’s evil nature when he thought of pushing Finny from the tree. He also showed signs of hate and jealousy towards Finny when he created his new game and when he used his great athletic ability. Another human characteristic he showed was his happiness from his success he had in his school work. And courage when he decided to jump off the tree branch with Finny. Every man has certain human traits that we all have in common. Hate, jealousy, courage, happiness, failure, and regret. These are only some of the characteristics that humans show to each other. Gene was a perfect example of these feelings therefore he was a good example of every man and how every man would react in these situations. Gene showed a great change in how he felt as soon as Phineas dared him to jump from the tree. As Gene said, “It had loomed din my mind as a huge long spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece, high as the beanstalk.” I know he probably felt that he had accomplished something in a way by jumping. Either one of his fears or something in the range of being accepted as one of Phineas’ close friends that he could finally now relate to now that he had done something that no one else felt they wanted to do. But there was always that one moment that Gene just completely stopped to think. Maybe it was that he was in shock and amazed at what he had just accomplished, but maybe it was to think about what could happen. If Gene continues on this path that Phineas had put him on would he become more popular, more significant to others as was Phineas.
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