Hatred in A Seperate Peace

Hatred in A Seperate Peace A man named Norman Vincent Peale once said that, "No one can avoid entirely an inner struggle between love and hate. We are all challenged by it. The question in everyone's life is not whether this feeling of hate and aggression can be done away with, but whether it can be successfully modified." This quote is reflected in John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace. The hatred in this book is …

…for. Gene chose to express this instinct through anger and jealousy, causing himself more pain than he caused to others. Gene put it best when he said, "All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy" <Tab/>