A Separate Peace: Gene Forrester Sometimes in life a person may look back upon events that have occurred in their lives and realize that they have reached a point in which they are ready to move on. One can see this happen to the character Gene Forrester in the novel A Separate Peace. For fifteen years of his life Gene Forrester felt guilt and remorse because he thought that he had caused the death of his best friend Finny. Looking back on the death of his best friend Gene realized that although he had suffered terrible guilt upon the death of his friend for many years, eventually he bee