The Greasy Lake Analysis

The “Greasy Lake” was told in a first-person narrator that was left unnamed. The author choice to write about the character who was talking about their rebellious faze of their life. From this point of view you can tell as if the character is telling someone of their teenage years and all they dumb things they did in order to be cool. For example, “We wore torn-up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue and ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine.” (306) this shows how they wanted to give off the look of being a bad boy but wanted to seem to be cool with their friends. Reading the story as if it was coming from the characters own mouth, made the tale more real instead of the possibility that it was made
up. The scene after they believed that they had just played joke on their friend gave it a light heart mood “We hit the horn, strobed the lights, and then jumped out of the car to press out witty faces to Tony’s car.” (306) but that mood quickly turned. Once they had realized their mistake in the words it feels just how quickly it went from funny to serious “ Judging from their expressions, Digby and Jeff were privately groping towards the same inevitable and unsettling conclusion as I was.”(307) gave a clue into how and what the narrator was thinking as this unfolded.