Coming-of-Age Stories with Morals: T. Coraghessan Boyles Greasy Lake a

T. Coraghessan Boyles Greasy Lake and John Updikes A & P have many similarities as well as differences. Both argon coming-of-age stories that teach some sort of lesson to the protagonist at the end. A&P is about a nineteen-year-old boy who stands up against his manager to impress a match of girls who are dressed immodestly. Greasy Lake is about many nineteen years olds playing a prank on a couple of boastful characters who turn out to show the teens what they can really do in return. Luckily, the narrator and Sammy both realize their deficiency after the situations with the other characters. In A&P the narrators turning point in his life is when he finds the bikers body in the lake next to him. In Greasy Lake the identification occurs after Sammy quits his job and tries to be the hero to those girls. In both stories, the protagonists have no idea what the real world is like, or how it works. The narrator in Greasy Lake does not know what bad means until his own badness i s put to the test in the real world. From his experience, Sammy learns that he will...