![]() ![]() One summer evening, Finny decides that he and Gene should take on a challenge that no underclassman has. For Gene, his relationship with Finny-as with the friendships between most boys at the Devon School-is complicated by competitiveness.įinny, who is charming, athletic, and reckless, constantly challenges Gene to take risks and push himself. They are sixteen and too young to enlist in the military or be drafted, but are on the cusp of the final year at school in which the curriculum focuses in earnest on training boys for the military. In the summer of 1943, Gene and Phineas (or “Finny”) are roommates and best friends. Gene returns to campus fifteen years after graduating to confront and process the sites of traumatic incidents during a period he describes as the most formative of his life. ![]() ![]() Gene Forrester, the novel’s narrator, relates the events of his senior year at the Devon School, beginning in the summer of 1943. ![]()
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