The Devon School - Students, A Separate Peace

Students, A Separate Peace

  • Gene Forrester -is a little gay boy who is trying to come out

on or inspired to some degree by Knowles' Exeter classmate Gore Vidal) accused Gene of making Finny fall

  • Elwin "Leper" Lepellier - the eccentric witness to the plot's tragedy; enlisted into the army and went AWOL
  • Chet Douglass - Gene's brightest academic competition and the trumpet player
  • Bobby Zane
  • Brownie Perkins - Brinker Hadley's antisocial roommate during the Winter Session
  • Cliff Quackenbush - manager of the school rowing crew

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