A Separate Peace
What is Finny's attitude toward the war as he expresses it in chapter 8?
In the book, A separate peace
In the book, A separate peace
Finny is initianally against the war. Peace had come back to Devon," Gene says, after Finny had returned. For a while, the struggle between war and peace is temporarily won by peace; and for a short time, Gene also forgets about his ideas of enlisting and enjoys his time at the school with his friend. Gene is still fighting, however, with his feelings about the accident, and about himself; perhaps he wanted to go to war so that he could be distracted by that external battle, and not have to concentrate on his own.