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Phineas was the main character, Gene’s, “best” friend, although Gene had a warped view of their friendship. Finny was a talented athlete who was destined for greater things, but his sports career was abruptly cut short, thanks to Gene’s jealousy. Gene and Finny were roommates at the Devon School, and it was obvious that Gene envied his friend from the get-go. Finny, “For such an extraordinary athlete,” the best the school had ever seen, “was not spectacularly built. He was [Gene’s] height, five feet eight and a half inches, and weighed a hundred and fifty pounds, which flowed from his legs to torso around shoulders to arms and full strong neck in an uninterrupted, unemphatic unity of strength.” This quote gives Finny an almost super-human nature,

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