Have you done something knowing you would end up in a miserable situation. The narrator in “ Car Crash while hitchhiking,” by Dennis Johnson achieves just that. This story focuses on intoxicants and drugs. The narrator tries to obtain the reader to think that these drugs and alcoholic drinks aid people to remember every moment of every single event.“ I knew every raindrop by its name”( Denis Johnson pg 288). In the story, the narrator hitchhikes with numerous people on a journey to get home.

The story starts off with the narrator getting picked up by a salesperson. They take plenty of amphetamines, and drink loads of liquor. The salesperson later dropped the narrator of in Kansas City. Next, the narrator gets picked up by a student and is once again offered drugs. He then wakes up beside a highway in a puddle. Finally the narrator rides with a family and this time the narrator feels like things won’t turn out as well. “ I'd known all along what was going to happen”( Denis Johnson pg 289)..The drugs bring a delusional effect and proves the narrator to be extremely omniscient. The narrator turns out to be right as the family gets into a lethal car crash. …show more content…
It also leaves much untold keeping the reader guessing and assuming things. This story uses healthy imagery. The narrator describes the windshield wipers standing up, then down. Also the man hanging out his window and how the dead man’s wife responds when she is told that her husband passed away. The author uses great imagery to detail the crash and the people hurt in the crash. “His face was smashed and dark with blood”(Johnson pg 290). The author sets the scene in the story and gets into detail with all of the events that took place during the