This is when Finny was portraying his thoughts and feelings.Gene knew it was a courageous thing to say when it came to exposing a sincere emotion like that at the Devon School- which was the next thing to suicide. The narrator should have told him then that he was his best friend and continued what Finny had said. Gene started to, but something held him back. He was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.
“I hope you’re having a pretty good time here. I know I kind of dragged you away at the point of a gun, but after all you can’t come to the shore with just anybody and you can’t come by yourself, and at this teen-age period in life the proper person is your best pal.”...“which is what you are,
Gene portrays his jealousy and mentions how he envies Finny for being able to get away with everything. Finny goes crazy doing random things and gets away with it while Gene doesn't do all these mischievous acts as Finny does. He also feels the competition between himself (Gene) and Finny when it comes to academics, athletics, and other knowledge. According to the text, it states, I couldn’t help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying your best friend a little.” (Knowles)