The story takes place during WII. Gene (the narrator) claims that the "bombs in Central Europe were completely unreal to us here" what reasons does he give for that?
From the text:
Bombs in Central Europe were completely unreal to us here, not because we couldn’t imagine it—a thousand newspaper photographs and newsreels had given us a pretty accurate idea of such a sight—but because our place here was too fair for us to accept something like that. We spent that summer in complete selfishness, I’m happy to say.
A Separate Peace
