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In Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City the narrator acts like an immature fool throughout most of the novel. The narrator does way too much partying, has little work ethic and his life is spiraling in a negative direction. However, towards the end of the novel there seems to be an apparent growth in the narrator’s character. This growth is very important and only developed for several significant reasons. The narrator acts like an immature fool throughout most of the novel. After his wife Amanda left him and ran away to Paris, the narrator seems to have fallen into a depression. He goes out basically every night of the week with his friend Tad Allagash and snorts lines of cocaine in shady and run down New York City clubs. Even if he has work the next morning, the narrator is out until the late hours of the night getting high. His drug problem is apparent and portrays his need for an outlet in life. The narrator works in The Department of Factu