Greasy Lake

        Every young man wants to be bad, it is hard wired into our systems. Some simply aren't good at being bad, while others are amazing at it. The characters in Greasy Lake come from both ends of the spectrum.
        The main character and his two friends, Digby and Jeff,  are three young men who are absolutely terrible at being bad. Digby tried to emulate the bad boy persona by piercing his ear, but the fact that he fills this piercing with a golden star destroys any attempt to fulfill his "dream" of being a bad boy. He is also attending an ivy league school which, no matter who pays tuition, classifies him as a good boy. Jeff also believes hes a bad boy because he going to drop out of school, to become a painter/musician. There are no bad boy painters and even fewer bad boy musicians (rappers are not musicians).
        The irony that stems from the assertion the narrator made that he was "in the company of two dangerous characters" mocks the futile and hilarious efforts many good boys in their attempts to be bad men. This ironic statement is followed by the "bad boys" attempt to play a prank on their friend, an action that true bad boys would not attempt because bad boys simply do not care about anything, much less their "friends." This mistake along with the dark events that occurred because of it also mock the boys attempts at being bad, pointing out every thing they did that showed deep down they are good.
        As the story comes to a close, the boys are provided with an opportunity to be real bad boys, but they turn it down because they are still in shock due to the events that had just transpired. If they were truly bad they wouldn't have cared about anything and gone and done drugs and slept with those to ladies, but they said no a proved their naivety in regards to the art of being bad.