Gene and Finny complete each other in the same way that the two halves of a Yin and Yang make a complete circle. Gene and Finny may be best friends, but they are very different in a lot of ways. Finny embodies a carpe diem attitude, while Gene is much more cautious and reserved. Those two personalities are constantly playing off of each other, and they serve to balance each boy out. Without Gene, Finny...
Gene and Finny complete each other in the same way that the two halves of a Yin and Yang make a complete circle. Gene and Finny may be best friends, but they are very different in a lot of ways. Finny embodies a carpe diem attitude, while Gene is much more cautious and reserved. Those two personalities are constantly playing off of each other, and they serve to balance each boy out. Without Gene, Finny would not ever consider the consequences of his actions (kind of like how Jiminy Cricket completes Pinocchio). Without Finny, Gene would never leave the confines of his dorm to stop studying. It's almost like John Knowles took a regular person's warring impulses between doing what a person should do and doing what a person might want to do and created two caricatures of those personality types. One caricature is Gene, and the other is Finny. Put together, they mirror a more realistic, complete person.
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