Quote
"Winter's occupation seems to have conquered, overrun and destroyed everything, so that now there is no longer any resistance movement left in nature;...and now winter itself, an old, corrupt, tired conqueror, loosens its grip on the desolation, recedes a little, grows careless in its watch;sick of victory and enfeebled by the absence of challenge, its begins itself to withdraw from the ruined countryside."
Significance
I chose this because it is very obviously a metaphor for the war. The reason, I believe, it was written for winter because after the winter(or during), the boys could be drafted for the war. This time was dark and bleak for them. The war was on everyone's mind at this time, it wasn't surprising that Gene (or anyone besides Finny for that matter) was thinking about the war; how dingy his future was, how this could be the last time he could look at the winter with an air of relaxation and laziness around him.
Question
Could the "Separate Peace" not be all the boys', but Finny's?
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