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Finny playfully criticizes Gene’s clothes and grumbles about the lack of maid service. Gene responds that it is no great loss, considering the war, and he makes up Finny’s bed for him. The next day, Brinker bursts in, about to ask if Gene is ready to enlist, when he sees Finny. He starts to make a joke about Gene’s “plan”—to kill ...
Analysis. Finny immediately mocks the clothes Gene wore to shovel the railways, jovially making fun of the way he looks until Gene finally strips to his final layer, an undershirt. This, Finny says, is what Gene should have worn all day—just the undershirt, which looks good on him. Moving on, Finny laments the fact that Devon has gotten rid ...
Summary: Chapter 9. Gene feels a profound inner peace as he trains with Finny, and he sometimes finds it hard to believe truly in the widespread confusion of the war. To everyone’s surprise, Leper Lepellier, after watching a documentary about ski troops, enlists in January, which only makes the war seem even more unreal to Gene.
Gene is relieved to find that Devon is suddenly a good, peaceful place again with his friend back and no more pressure to enlist, but he knows in retrospect that it will not last. Finny decides not to go to class on his first day back; Gene is a little dismayed by his suggestion that neither go to class, but he goes with Finny anyway, to the gym.
When Gene says that the inconvenience is minor, considering the war, Finny murmurs his doubts about whether there really is a war at all. The next morning, as Finny bounds around the room on crutches, Brinker comes by to ask Gene if he is ready to go enlist. When Finny is shocked by this, Gene suddenly changes his mind and jokingly refuses to ...
Analysis. Gene wants more than anything to see Finny when he gets back to school, so he goes looking for him, eventually finding him at the far reaches of campus engaged in a large snowball fight. Before the fight ends, everyone turns on Finny and pelts him—something Gene can see that he loves. Later, Gene asks if it’s such a good idea for ...
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Expert Answers. Brinker confronts Gene about why he has put off enlisting in World War II, even though many of his classmates have, albeit at the same time getting themselves into programs that ...
