Metaphorically Speaking

Sweet success! I have finally created the bloggy thingy ha! The short story Greasy Lake is packed with delicious metaphors. Everything seems to be something it is actually not. Even the title, greasy lake, is a metaphor because the lake that once used to be so clean is now murky and turbid. "We wanted to snuff the rich scent of possibility on the breeze" is an excellent metaphor that encapsulates the possibilities of being young and, dare i say it, stupid to that which is real. "The first lusty rockette kick of his steel toed boot" is a metaphor that symbolizes the sexuality and testosterone of 19 year old boys. "Digby vaulted the kissing bumpers" is yet another one. "he was a stunt man and this was Hollywood" is my personal favorite metaphor in the story. I can see the whole movie slowing down in order for the stunt man to barely miss being clobbered by the crowbar and mock crumpling- fake blood all over his face and ear. The various and different gradients of metaphorical language enrich this short story and make it deeper. The three 19-year-old men/boys are described, in many different variations of the phrase, as bad. They are cool cats prowling the town. Underage drinking, smoking pot, sounds like a night in athens! Dead bodies, raping, destroying are all however very unlike our typical college experience. The metaphors make these boys seem much more relatable to us, experimental maybe, OU students. It allows the story to come alive and the reader or audience to be a part of it.