"We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff the rich sent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets. The unhealthy, treacherous atmosphere of Greasy Lake is alluring, fun, and exciting to someone as threatening as he is. To him, the lake represents a night of misbehavior and partying. He thinks of himself to be a kid who knows everything. With his followers, the narrator goes to Greasy Lake, he takes in the nature that surrounds him. There is nobody as cool as he is or as dangerous as him and his friends are. ![]() As his tale begins, the narrator sees himself as a tough guy or "bad character". His outlook on nature transforms into a wholly different standpoint as the story progresses. ![]() The viewpoint of the world that the narrator has, completely alters as certain events take place throughout the story. The ironic circumstances that the narrator in "Greasy Lake" finds himself in are the same circumstances that young people find themselves in when fighting war. Boyle's short story "Greasy Lake" are the same type of events that in an instant will change a person forever. Sudden and Ironic events that happen to the narrator in T.C.
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