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"I stopped and looked at him up and down. He didn’t look directly back at me. "You’re too good to be true," I said after a while.
He glanced at me, and them said, "Thanks a lot" in a somewhat expressionless voice.
Was he trying to impress me or something? Not tell anybody? When he had broken a school record without a day of practice?" (36)
Gene, on the other hand, can’t do anything impressive without studying frequently. Gene studies almost like he is overzealous, and trying to become the class valedictorian. If he doesn’t study for hours on one test he is going to fail. He can’t just go to the test not prepared and ace it like Finny can with sports. This made Gene
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Once jealousy took root in Gene, it distorted a friendship so severely, jealousy shattered the link between Gene and Finny. At first Gene starts to pull away from Finny when he is out playing blitzball with others at Devon.
Revenge sets in to Gene, he thinks that he needs to be better than Finny. "It was a messy break," he went on, "but we’ll have him out of it eventually. He analyzed my character, and he insisted on knowing what I disliked most about him ("You’re too conventional," I said). "Sports are finished for him, after an accident like that. In Gene’s terms he has leveled the scales finally. Gene recognizes that Finny, on the charts, places ahead of Gene constantly so he plans a plot to get "even". Wild stories about his childhood; as I pumped panting up steep hills he glided along beside me, joking steadily. Finny will never again play sports.
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