Fever Pitch

by

Nick Hornby

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Pete Character Analysis

Pete is Nick’s friend and a fellow Arsenal fan. Pete is the only person who ever matches Nick’s level of obsession with the team. Pete and Nick meet when Nick is 27, at a time when Nick is beginning to drift away from football, but his friendship with Pete reignites his interest. Pete and Nick remain good friends for years and often attend Arsenal games together.

Pete Quotes in Fever Pitch

The Fever Pitch quotes below are all either spoken by Pete or refer to Pete. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Obsession vs. Fandom Theme Icon
).
Chapter 47 Quotes

There was another agenda altogether, involving our shared inability to get on with things away from Highbury and our shared need to carve out a little igloo for ourselves to protect us from the icy winds of the mid-eighties and our late twenties.

Related Characters: Nick Hornby (speaker), Pete
Page Number: 152
Explanation and Analysis:
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Pete Quotes in Fever Pitch

The Fever Pitch quotes below are all either spoken by Pete or refer to Pete. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Obsession vs. Fandom Theme Icon
).
Chapter 47 Quotes

There was another agenda altogether, involving our shared inability to get on with things away from Highbury and our shared need to carve out a little igloo for ourselves to protect us from the icy winds of the mid-eighties and our late twenties.

Related Characters: Nick Hornby (speaker), Pete
Page Number: 152
Explanation and Analysis: