Ernest Hemingway's Tone of Winter

During the summer term, the students of Devon held a kind of innocence to the world, they were able to joke and play even though a war was going on because Finny was able to inspire them to forget about the surrounding dangers, while the winter term was filled with the grim maturity of the real world. With Finny injured and unable to play sports ever again, the winter term is filled with seriousness because of the loss of Finny's near invulnerable and youthful stature. The students realize that the world is far more harsher than they suspected. The students of Devon including Jean who previously ignored their duties of campus and beyond, for fun and frolicking during the warm breezy days of summer now have to prepare for their lives outside of school and mature to face a world at war like the winter itself is placing a chilly breeze over their hearts.