A Seperate Piece The Idealist I would say that Finny(Phineas) was the biggest idealist in the story. His feelings and many things on many issues, made me think of him this way. The actions that Finny take in the novel make him seem as though he is the happiest person on the planet, like for instance when he says "There is no war", this showed that he wasn't really bothered by the war which …showed first 75 words of 547 total…

…showed last 75 words of 547 total…of Finny's death came from with-in himself where as he thought of Finny's death as his own meaning that Finny's death hurt him so bad that it felt as though he had also parished. Gene's realistics views on death, war, school, and many other things make him a shoe-in for the "Realist" of the story, yet if it was only from Finny's view-point maybe just maybe Finny could have been the realist of the story.