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…showed last 75 words of 845 total…is weak and they are living dead lives. I feel Boyle does an excellent job of using Greasy Lake to symbolize the physical and moral condition of the characters and the society they inhibit. Just as the condition of the lake is dying, the society the characters live in is dying. Greasy Lake is also something almost any reader can relate to. Growing up, we all had a Greasy Lake in some form or another.