Throughout the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, there were two dominant
characters. Gene who is the narrator and Finny who is Gene's best friend have a
great relationship shown in A Separate Peace. Finny whose real name is Phineas
has three qualities, manipulation, athleticism, and is a strong leader.
Manipulation is shown all through the novel by Finny and is one of his best
assets that he has. We see his manipulation skills from getting out of trouble
when they skipped dinner to the time he made Gene first jump out of the tree.
""The reason sir is that we just had to jump out of…
