In the beginning, of the book ‘A Separate Peace’, Gene Forester is visiting his old school reminiscing on old memories. He travels to important parts like the stairs where his best friend was fatally injured, and a tree by a river that he jumped with his friend. He flashes back and describes events from his past that made him who he is. Not long after Finny and Gene create their club, the Super Suicide Society, gene emotionally goes crazy and shakes Finny, causing him to fall, breaking his leg. Gene feels extremely guilty about this and tries to tell Finny that it was on purpose, but finny refuses to believe him until he is almost dead. Much later on, upon finny’s return to the Devon school, he decides to throw a winter festival, which has not been done before or coordinated by the school. At the ending of the book, Gene was ultimately the end of Finny. Finny is very mad at Gene because he finally realizes that the tree “accident’ was not an accident. After a fight, Gene storms off and ends up falling down the stairs. When his bone marrow enters his heart through the blood, it slows it down and eventually stops it. So in turn, it’s fair to say that Gene killed finny because he was jealous throughout his military High School life.