Greasy Lake Narrator

Greasy Lake is the story of three friends who are potray themselves to be bad characters.

Until they run into a situation where they question, just how bad they are.

It can easily be identify as the changing from boys to men, in the beginning of the

story the narrator and his friends were compared to nature, which can relate to the

many ironic events that happen to the narrator.

Some of The circumstances that the narrator in "Greasy Lake" finds himself in, are the same

that many young people find themselves in when fighting war. One of the

many things that took place was when the narrator sees himself as a tough guy or

"bad character". He believes he is invincible, There is nobody as cool as he is, or as
At this point the narrator is not bothered about his mom’s car because he is now safe in the lake behind trees where no one

could find him. Once the narrator continues to swim to a safe place in the lake he

runs into something that plunges like a rubber duck, The rubber duck is a dead

body. The irony comes with this because the only person the narrator could think of that

would have ended this man’s life would have been the greasy character. Once

everything is cleared up the narrator goes to see his mother’s car that is torn up, but

luckily the tires are still inflated. The young men now see nature as a sweet

smelling air with beautiful birds singing. At the beginning the boys believe nature is

nothing but crickets, frogs, and a muddy lakes. To me this shows the boys

are now changing from boys to adulthood due to the barriers that were

broken that night.

In conclusion, we can see clearly that the narrator alone, if not all