Greasy Lake

Greasy Lake is structured in a way that is pretty standard for narratives. The story is written in first person with a nineteen year old guy as the narrator. The exposition is filled with statements about how "bad" the narrator and his friends Digby and Jeff are. We also learn during the exposition that the guys are riding around in the narrator's mother's car in early June. They're pretty bored until they see what they think is the car of a guy they know at Greasy Lake. We also get the impression that the guys hang out at Greasy Lake a lot. It seems to be a local hang out spot for young people who are "bad". After all of this is established, the guys approach the car that they think belongs to a friend named Tony Lovett. The action begins to rise as a greasy man gets out of the car who is not Tony Lovett. There is a fight between the guys. The climax in a lot of stories seems to be negotiable. I think the climax could occur when the narrator gets the tire iron out of his car, because at that point the fight becomes much more dangerous than just a fight. I also felt that it could occur when the guys try to rape the "fox" who was in the car or even when the other guys show up and the narrator and his friends hide because there is a shift of power involved. Finally, I felt like the narrator finding the dead guy in the lake could have been the climax. Each event seemed like the climax as it was happening because the situation just kept getting worse. Or maybe I'm just clueless.
After the guys leave and the narrator and his friends can come out from hide the action begins to fall. They see some girls who ask for the dead guy and over them drugs, evaluate the damage done to the narrator's mom's car, and leave. The story is concluded with an image of the girl, whose friend is lying dead in the lake, with a hand outstretched toward the car as they drive away.