Setting and Characterization in "Greasy Lake" by T.Coraghessan.
Date Submitted: 05/12/2004 16:02:41
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 3 pages (938 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 3 pages (938 words)
Setting and Characterization in "Greasy Lake"
The path to becoming an adult is lined with a variety of childhood and adolescent experiences, some more painful than others. In T. Coraghessen Boyle's short story, "Greasy Lake," Boyle masterfully uses the setting and the protagonist's experience to teach us an old but vital lesson: those who choose not to learn and grow from their past mistakes are destined to repeat them, and thus will never mature and …
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…for the narrator and his two friends, who, when they are now presented with an opportunity "to party [...] to do some of these with me and Sarah," reluctantly reply, "[s]ome other time," (136) no longer desiring to prove themselves bad characters, but just wanting to go home.
Work Cited
Boyle, T. Coraghessen. "Greasy Lake." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 8th ed. New York: Longman, 2002. 128-136.
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