During this conversation of enlisting it reveals that Finny needs Gene to stay at Devon. When Brinker walks into the room and asks Gene if he wants to enlist Finny flips out and immediately starts asking "What's he talking about," (knowles p. 107). Gene starts noticing that Finny doesn't want him to go because Finny needs him. He describes how Finny's face gives away that Finny doesn't want Gene to leave " I could hardly believe it, but it was too plainly printed in the closed expression of his face to mistake, too discernible beneath the even tone of his voice: Phineas was shocked at the idea of my leaving. In some way he needed me. He needed me" (knowles p. 108). This proves that Finny and Gene's relationship never ended or had a break. Finny always needed Gene and now that he is crippled he needs Gene even more than he did before. After this conversations Gene realizes that he can't leave Finny, the war was no longer something he dreamed of, enlisting didn't mean anything anymore for Gene. He now just had to stand by Finny and help him get through something he knew caused.
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