Essays on Greasy Lake

T. C. Boyle’s famous story, “Greasy Lake”, tells the story of three boys, aged nineteen. These boys, who lived in the days when the boys generally “cultivated decadence like a taste” (Boyle 168), went to Greasy Lake because “everyone went there”, to watch “a girl takes off her clothes”. At the beginning of the story the narrator sets the tone of the story, hinting that what is going to happen in the story will be quite bad. The structure of a story is normally analyzed by examining the beginning or exposition, conflict, climax, denouement, etc. A look at how this story ...

The Greasy Lake is a story that dwells upon the details of some young children bad and delinquent in their activities and lifestyle. They presume that the “badness” syndrome is a fashionable trend they keep and develop within them. The plot of the story is interesting and poses a variety of questions quite relevant to the reader response viewpoint of analysis. A journey through the mind of the writer from a psychoanalytic outlook may represent an illusionary destination of choices unique to the reader as the author may wish to reveal. The protagonist may be the dominant factor in this phenomenon where the ...

The aim of this research paper is to present you with the beliefs, attitudes and behaviors towards human mortality as portrayed in three literature pieces. The three literature pieces which have been chosen to be presented in this essay are the ‘Greasy Lake’ by T. Coraghessan, ‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati and ‘Children on their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote. All these three stories will be presented in terms of how they seem to approach the issue of human mortality and how they can be characterized and analyzed when compared to the classic piece of literary criticism ‘The Sense of ...