A Separate Peace: Chapter 4

I felt like everything snowballed very quickly in this chapter. The confusing and fast series of events occurs.
1. Gene flunks his test
2. Gene goes crazy.
When I say crazy, I mean paranoid and just really really seeing the world differently from the way it is.
He decides that Finny wants to wreck his studies, and truly begins to hate Finny. Gene feels that since they are equal in their different talents, Finny is jealous and therefore created Blitzball and the Super Suicide Society. It gets to be that Gene is so defensive, that he begins to analyze his other rivals (Chet Douglass, the other academic rival).
Gene describes how he was "thoughtlessly slipping back into affection for him again." as if it is a mistake, an error on his part to once again love his best friend Finny.
3. Gene says no
For once, when Finny proposes that Gene attends a Society meeting, Gene exclaims that he has to study. Finny is surprised, and Gene realized that Finny thought that Gene's academic success came the same way sports came to Finny. Gene realizes that there never could have been a rivalry between Gene and Finny, as Finny was not jealous.
4. The jump
Finny and Gene decide to jump at the same time, however Gene jounces the limb.
Finny falls, and Gene fearlessly jumps into the river.
The way that Gene jounces the limb is so cold, calculated and emotionless, especially when he so easily jumps into the river just after causing his friend to fall.
The chapter was fast paced, interesting, confusing, and ultimately disturbing.
The parallels between the bible passage of Cain and Abel and A Separate Peace are shown in the jealousy, which results in harm of the "better" person.