Character Analysis of “The Narrator”

Character Analysis of “The Narrator”

Thesis Statement

The paper reflects the corruption of youth society and its flair of change fall into an important incident that brought the drastic transform.

Introduction

The short story of “Greasy Lake” is penned down of by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The story composed on a dangerous character “The narrator”, who exposes the ultimate dissenter upon first glimpse. The narrator is a chief anonymous character appear defiant to his associates and to anyone who is around him. The story of the character is quite interesting, as it describes the number of quality combinations in one single character as whole. The fable is about the key character who does not like to reveal his real nature to his friends and other people in society; therefore he carries on himself in the veil of bad bearing character to show his greatness and smartness.

Discussion

Bad characters always become limelight and take audience attention. The same thing happened with the character of boyle's Narrator. In this story of Greasy Lake he sketches the changing character of boy to a sensible man in just one night event. The narrator is 19 years old and a combination of good and bad character. Throughout the story he tries to pretend himself very rude and cool in front of people and used to drive his mom cars and lavishly spend his father's money. The motif of the story is plotted to make people understand about those characters who tries to be more than they are in real. It has been observed that narrator is not really bad person but he is just engaged in those behavior which apparent them wild and cool in front of the world. The motivation force of evilness and immorality was obviously grabbed by society that gave him space to think and pretend a bad character. It has been observed that “Greasy Lake” develops the changes in character with two apparent views. In the starting of the story, the narrator grows “to snuff the rich scent 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.” And in the end of the story these swinish pleasures have lost their appeal.

The narrator is anti from social gatherings as ...