Question: Michael Walker argues that ". . .one of the most common practices of the twentieth-century short story was presenting the sudden insight of a character under pressure. . .[A]t the moment of

 Question: Michael Walker argues that ". . .one of the most common practices of the twentieth-century short story was presenting the sudden insight of a character under pressure. . .[A]t the moment of emotional climax, the usually unwilling protagonist encounters. . .a new awareness of the reality of human existence" (para. 4).  Does the narrator in Boyle's "Greasy Lake" reach this understanding?