T.C. Boyle's Greasy Lake

At first, I didn't know what to think about the story. It started off innocently enough and even reminded me of my summers back home. However, things took a turn for the worse as the narrator and his two friends went to tease one of their friends by finding a car that looked like his parked in a secluded area. Instead, they found some random guy getting it on with his girlfriend (….maybe). What then follows is them knocking the guy out and almost raping the girl, only to almost be caught by police. The boys scramble and hide and the narrator finds a dead body. For me, I think the dead body had the most significance in the story. After all, here he is in danger of being killed and there’s just this dead body next to him. It struck me as some type of symbol, because the first part of the story is them basically ‘just being kids’, running around town and going out to bars to get drunk. It made me stop for a few moments and think about mortality as a whole, especially since it is revealed near the end that the dead body is actually a young guy. I guess it just went to show that we’re not as immortal as we think we are.