Phineas and Gene a Comparitive Essay

Title: Phineas and Gene a Comparitive Essay
Category: Literature / Novels | Words: 1460 | Pages: 6.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Phineas and Gene a Comparitive Essay

Phineas and Gene: A Comparative Study Throughout the story, Phineas and Gene, the two main characters, showed a number of contrasting traits. Phineas was a confident, non competitive, naive, irresponsible, and unintelligent person throughout the story, whereas Gene, Phineas' roommate, was insecure, competitive, mature, responsible, and intelligent throughout the story. Phineas had a confident nature in everything he did. As Phineas and Gene first met, they noticed they were both the same height, but Phineas, …showed first 75 words of 1460 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1460 total…listened to Phineas speak when they first met, which proved that Phineas was a leader because he began the conversation, and instead of participating, Gene just listened. The two characters in the short story, " Phineas," proved to have very contrasting personality traits throughout the entire story. Phineas was confident, non competitive, naive, irresponsible, unintelligent, and a natural leader, whereas Gene was insecure, competitive, mature, responsible, intelligent, and a follower. Thus causing them to be foils.

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