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Gene's identity affects his friendship by not allowing himself to open himself up to Finny and hide his true feelings and the truths to what he had done. This hiding within his identity allowed for the event in the gym and how Finny finally found out and ended up falling, to his delayed death. Because of Gene's identity (hiding things from others), he killed his only true friendship.

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Gene and Finny's friendship is one held by lies and hopes of redemption. Gene keeps lying to Finny over and over again about what he has done. Finny holds hopes of redemption of the friendship by lying to himself about Gene's confession, that he can get Gene into the Olympics, and there is no true war without him. Gene also holds hopes of redemption by trying to not let Finny fall through his fingers like at the tree while also making everything right between them.

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Gene's identity is almost like a mask, with people seeing something different than what he is on the inside. The persona he creates is made of false confidence to hide his fear of embarrassment and forgiveness, or lack thereof.

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What is gene's identity? How is the friendship he has with Finny? How does that identity affect the friendship?

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Gene hides the truth and this causes unreliable rumors running through Finny's head about what happened

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Gne hides things from finny and that ends up with his death

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Gene becomes better friends with brinker after Finny leaves but throws it away when Finny is back. Brinker then do dat ting in da gym and Finny go splat

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He isolates himself and doesn't get involved

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gene avoids talking in the butt room when they start to talk about Finny and turns the attention on someone else

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Gene finds a way to blame something else

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gene doesn't want to tell finny of the tree and wants to hide it, this ends up killing finny

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Gene avoids solving problems and just looks for something to blame or an excuse

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Definition of identity  the distinguishing character or personality of an individual 

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Definition of identity  the distinguishing character or personality of an individual 

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how gene done protect himself from dangers

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how gene done protect himself from dangers

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Finny only sees what Gene wants to show him(Gene's identity)

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How does gene's identity impact the relationship he has with finny