There were a couple of places now which I wanted to see. Both were fearful sites, and that was why I wanted to see them. So after lunch at Devon Inn I walked back toward the school. It was a raw, nondescript time of year, toward the end of November, the kind of wet, self-pitying November day when every speck of dirt stands out clearly. Devon luckily had very little of such weather-the icy clamp of winter, or the radiant New Hampshire summers, were more characteristic of it-but this day it blew wet, moody gusts all around me.

     I chose this paragraph because it's the first time the character describes the school. It seems to me that Gene has contradicting feelings about the school. He starts off by explaining that there was so much fear there that he didnt know what fear was. Then in this paragraph he seems like he's having warm and fuzzy flashbacks of the weather and different seasons. This section stuck out because of its seemingly contradicting thoughts.

     I never saw this great-uncle, but I'm supposed to look like him with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in fathers office. I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in the that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless. Instead of being the warm center ot the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe-so I decided to go East and  learn the bond buisness. Everybody I knew was in the bond buisness, so I supposed it could support one more single man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep school for me, and finally said, "Why  ye-es," with very grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.

     I chose this paragrph because it stuck out to me as one of the key peices to his past. In just this small section you find that he was in the first World War, that he graduated at New Haven in 1915 and you find that heis story takes place 94 years ago. All this tells me that this is a very important chunk of information.