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- IN THE BOOK A SEPARATE PEACE ARE PHEAS AND GENE GAY?
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It’s not explicly gay, pecially knowg this was butch WWII era, but feels a ltle, you know … [drops wrists]. Also, the next time I’m searchg for onle ntent, I want to wre “healthy, termed, not over-exaggerated but fe and substantial buttocks” and see what I didn’t the way, when I was lookg up more about John Knowl for this piece, apparently Brker is based his Phillips Exeter buddy – and known homosexual – Gore Vidal. ” In A Separate Peace, Fny breaks Devon’s 100-yard etyle swimmg rerd—but the wng time was unofficial, as Gene, who served as timekeeper, was the sole there was no scriptn of any sexual enunter the novel, some rears have ntend that the book has a gay unrcurrent.
A handful of crics have objected to this perceived dynamic, cludg parents a central New York school district who, 1980, nounced A Separate Peace as a “filthy, trashy sex novel” that enuraged homosexualy.
For what ’s worth, Knowl said, “If there had been homoeroticism between Pheas and Gene, I would have put the book, I assure you. The shy tellectual Gene ador the nfint, athletic Fny, and there are some strong homo-erotic ditns narrator Gene’s scriptns of him, though the tennci are never named as homosexual ( part, I take , bee was a 1959 publitn; I am sure we never discsed class the possibily of the boys beg gay).
IN THE BOOK A SEPARATE PEACE ARE PHEAS AND GENE GAY?
I was required to read this piece of crap when I was a sophomore at Carmel High. No, I don't thk Gene and Fny are gay. But a huge unrcurrent of homophobia ns through the story, and Leper, who is entirely out of place among this crowd of preppy boys, might be gay - not to suggt there's anythg wrong wh that.
If he's not gay, he's out of place for other reasons, among which, he's a tenr-hearted loner. Beach Scene, but what if was gay? I’m not gog to say there’s a rrelatn, but the only other person my class who loved was also the only other gay kid.
Aga, not sayg there’s a and the other gay guy the class unrstandg our love for A Separate Peace. I remember my teacher never touchg on the fact that there were obv homosexual unrton to the novel. A Separate Peace was wrten a time when gay was taboo, so of urse a book directly about a relatnship that was perhaps teasg a ltle more than iendship, had to be a b low key.