Ch. 5 "I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off." (70)

Is Gene crazy? This quote obviously makes any reader think there is something wrong with Gene right from the start. Gene became so filled with envy and jealousy that he would intentionally hurt his own previous best friend. Seriously? Maybe doing something to get them in trouble would be different. (I bet Gene thought of that first and realized Finny would probably talkhis way out of punishment like he had done so many times before.) Even if Gene had hurt Finny on purpose he should not have told him about it.

Is it really Gene's fault for being so envious of Finny since he really is so good at everything?