How does the heroes’ encounter with the two girls at the end of the storydiffer from their earlier encounter with the girl from the blue Chevy? How do you account for the difference? When at the end of the story the girl offers to party with the three friends, what makes the narrator say, “I thought I was going to cry”?
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- In its way, Greasy Lake is a force for change, despite its “fall” from a prior state of beauty. Caught trying to rape the girl in the blue car, the narrator is grateful to be alive and feels horror at the death of the “bad older character” whose body he meets in the slime. His growth has begun. When at the end of the story, two more girls pull into the parking lot, the subdued narrator and his friends are harmless. Cold sober and bone tired, they know they have had a lucky escape from consequences that might have been terrible. Also, the narrator knows, as the girls do not, that Al is dead, his body rotting in the lake. He won’t “turn up”—except perhaps in the most grisly way. It is this knowledge and the narrator’s new reverence for life that make him think he is going to cry.
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