A Separate Peace | Themes and Characters
The opening pages of A Separate Peace serve as a prologue in the "present" when the book is being written, fifteen years after 1942, the critical year in the life of the novel's narrator, Gene Forrester. A mood of philosophical reflection develops as the narrator describes a visit back to his prep school. His memory soon takes him back to the days of his seventeenth year, at the convergence of youth and manhood in a timeless moment when "feeling was stronger than thought." This return enables Knowles to place the action within an introspective frame so that both "feeling" and...
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