in some styles. Greasy Lake is much more metamorphic than Pet Fly even though both are not that metamorphic in its entirety. Greasy Lake had a few sentences where it would compare a word to another. Examples of this are: "my heart turning over like a dirt bike in the wrong gear". Pet Fly was more straightforward. The main character (Rufus Coombs) told his story about how others acted and felt while Greasy Lake had its characters talk more about themselves then others. The style of both, Greasy Lake and Pet Fly are more on the low side. Greasy lake can be considered somewhat near the mixed style because it deals with a whole different situation than Pet Fly. Page TwoAfter reading Pet Fly and Greasy Lake, you notice that both stories dealt with a main character telling a story about his past. Greasy Lake and Pet Fly both end the story on a bad side where Greasy Lake experienced a near death situation while Pet Fly showed a man with no friends, no life, and a mother that treated him like an ignorant person. Greasy Lake was a more serious story with a stronger ending than Pet Fly. Pet Fly didn't really have an ending. Pet Fly started the story off by showing pity for this character and finished by showing pity for the character. Those were some comparisons of style between Greasy Lake and Pet Fly. Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle was a more thorough story, while Pet Fly by Walter Mosley was a more straightforward story.Page Three.......................B+...
