Gene Forrester the narrator of A Separate Peace, never failed a test until his roommate Finny challenges Gene's conformist viewpoints. Gene accommodated Finny, by following his events and influences. These two boys at Devon, a New England prep school, began to understand the complication of a friendship. At school, they experienced each other's feelings and emotions towards friendship. Within the novel A Separate Peace, Gene Forrester the main character, envied Phineas the school's star athlete for his ability to be a non-conformist and loyalty to friendship.

Gene Forrester was a gifted academic student while his non-conformist roommate Finny was prodigious in sports. Thoughts and comments made by Finny about the war grasp Gene; he began to envy Finny. By realizing Finny was not good at schoolwork, but by being good in sports himself, Gene made an imaginary conflict that developed into jealously. Subsequently, Gene began...