Who Is The Story-Teller In 'A Separate Peace'?
A Separate Peace P.O.V A Separate Peace is written from the point of view of Gene Forrester who attends a school in New Hampshire during WWII, but the tale is told as merely as story told 10 years after the event thus allowing the narrator to make critical comments about his 16-year-old self-such as “-How can you accuse me of accusing you of that!’ As I said, this was my sarcastic summer.” (Knowles, 29). The way the narrator seamlessly slips in and out of the story making such remarks allows us to remember that the story-teller is more involved in the story than the reader but less involved than that of a present tense narrator who feels every emotion and says every word with seemingly little shame, while telling the story from a more mature