Ryan Zull Professor Rodgers English Comp 102: Tue-Thurs. September 16, 2012 A Character Analysis of the Round Characters in “Greasy Lake” T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” deals with three young and naive teenagers who think they are invincible and hardcore characters. I know we call all relate to this feeling of being bad when we were teenagers. Staying out late, driving down the highways with our radios blaring, thinking to ourselves this is what life is all about. Because of the
story Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle, who writes about a young adult and his two friends, who try to “act bad.” Leading up to the narrator’s moment of epiphany he goes through a series of bad events occurring to him and his