Greasy Lake

Kevin Hayes fiction critique English 1302-65 4 March 2002 T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE Greasy Lake (1985) Thomas Boyles “Greasy Lake”(1985) was a type of story that. It features an array of out of control juvenile teens, and their wild ways. It displays the profile of what dangerous teens where like “when the winning way went out of style(Boyle 404).” This story is based on a song “Spirit In The Night”, that was written by “Bruce Springsteen”(4). It’s about …showed first 75 words of 895 total…

…showed last 75 words of 895 total…the “Greasy Lake” is that the allegory was just the opposite of the beast fable, because the human assume animal characteristics. I thought that Instead of calling it the “Greasy Lake”, Boyle should have named it “Dark Side” after (Bruce Springsteen) song. It would have had more meaning for the story. Overall, the story was pretty good, and makes you think of what living on the wild side could cause, and do to your life.