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Name___________________

A Separate Peace

Period______

Characterization: The methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature.
Direct characterization- the writer tells the reader explicitly what kind of person the character is.
Description.
Indirect characterization- The reader has to interpret information in order to ascertain a character's
personality through:
Who
Gene Forrester

Finny

Leper Lepellier

Brinker Hadley

Physical Description

Things the Character Says or Thinks

Things the Character Does

Quote and Page Number

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