Self-Discovery

”(18) Finny said with a sarcastic voice, in response to Genes comment about his bright pink shirt. Nobody ever says that finding a separate peace means the characters have found themselves, and found how to be true to themselves. He keeps his deep inside himself, refusing to let the outside world know his true emotions, living in constant denial. Prier to enlisting in the Army, he keeps everything deep beneath himself. Finny breaks down and lets his emotions fly, releasing his true colors. “Let’s go to the beach” Finny tells Gene. Although the beach was hours away and forbidden to go to, Gene responds with a simple “All Right. For being such a young student, he is confident in his self, and is a natural born leader. With Finny however, it just enunciates his personality. It takes a quarrel between Finny and Gene for him to finally realize Gene is involved with the accident that breaks his leg. The calm, subtle boy, has very mixed emotions on the inside. Although it seems like Finny is one-hundred percent true to himself, he is not. However, it means the boys have found something, somebody, someone…that sets them out of their façade. The separate peace could be more than just finding ones self, it could be something as simple as finding something or someone they enjoy being.