Summer to winter, innocence to corruption, and games to war were all examples of negative changes in A Separate Peace. Above the Assembly Room door, it is inscripted “Here Boys Come to Be Made Men”(157). This is the room in which Finny was forced to be mature, and listen to the truth. Finny could not handle the truth, and it ultimately resulted in his death. Every character changed for the worse in this novel, except for Gene. He said, “My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up at the source, withered and lifeless. Phineas had absorbed it and taken it with him, and I was rid of it forever”(195). This shows how unfair the author believes life is, as Finny had to take the blows for Gene to feel