Meet the Characters
“The houses were as handsome and as unusual as I remembered. Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbidding as ever. I had rarely seen anyone go into one of them, or anyone playing on a lawn, or even an open window. Today with their failing ivy and stripped, moaning trees the houses looked both more elegant and more lifeless than ever.”
The author of A Separate Peace.
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“No locker room could have more pungent air than Devon’s; sweat predominated, but it was richly mingled with smells of paraffin and singed rubber, of soaked wool and liniment, and for those who could interpret it, o exhaustion, lost hope and triumph and bodies battling against each other, I thought it anything but a bad smell as meaning and poignance for any athlete, just as it has for any lover.”
"Everything else was sharp and hard, but this Grecian sun evoked joy from every angularity and blurred with brightness the stiff face of the country side."
What is Fairmont, West Virginia?
“Phineas stopped talking for once so that now I could hear cricket noises and bird cries of dusk, a gymnasium truck gunning along an empty athletic road quarter of a mile away, a burst of faint, isolated laughter carried to us from the back door of the gym, and then over all, cool and matriarchal, the six o'clock bell from the academy building cupola, the calmest most carrying bell toll in the world, civilized, calm, invincible, and final.”
The state in which Devon is found.