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Responding to a Critic. Here is what one critic has written about Knowles’s use of symbolism in A Separate Peace. What happens in the novel is that Gene Forrester and Phineas, denying the existence of the Second World War as they enjoy the summer peace of Devon School, move gradually to a realization of an uglier adult world – mirrored in the winter and the Naguamsett River – whose ... ................
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