Fight Club Reader ResponseEssay Preview: Fight Club Reader ResponseReport this essayFight Club Reader ResponseThe movie Fight Club is based around a concept articulated by Tyler Durden to a lost generation of men as, “You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake”. This ideology represents a counter-culture to the typical American pop culture and creed. As demonstrated throughout the movie, this revolution is a fight against the widely accepted and conventional wisdom that inhabits the media and has an unparalleled affect on the outcome of our society. Fight Club is a reflection of the suffering experienced by the Generation X male who feels trapped in the world of the grey-collar working-class. The world that he inhabits is filled with materialism and distractions. Additionally, these males are part of a smaller group of men raised in single-parent families often devoid of a male role-model, living in a time period where there is no great cause for the average North American male to fight for. No purpose. This all constructs a loss of identity and reason in the male that is eventually resolved through enlightenment brought on by Fight Club; Self-destruction vs. self-improvement.
In the movie, the main character is introduced to the audience without a name and the ambiguity of the situation only becomes more entrenched in their minds as the movie progresses. The narrator comes to us without a name because he represents any man; anyone of those Generation X males living is our society at the present. The narrator is a thirty-three year old man employed as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. He lives in a condo that is furnished with all the comforts of modern society, namely mass-produced furniture brought on by the IKEA craze. He owns a car and has obtained a respectable wardrobe for himself (or so he thinks) over the course of time. Despite all of these things, however, he is not satisfied with his life. He feels unhappy, unfulfilled, and is trapped in the depths of chronic insomnia.
The narrator and he become partners and they fall in love. The relationship becomes a source of stress for the narrator and he discovers that he could only take care of himself.
The narrator is depressed at the prospect of being unable to take care of himself and that the relationship is too big to handle with a partner. This is because the narrator has come to view himself as the protagonist of an apocalyptic story whose stakes are at once large and small, and who will not be able to stand them down.
With two years left to live, the narrator begins to struggle with his own self-definition and the role of a protagonist.
The protagonist is a man who is still trying to be what he was, who is still trying to understand himself. His problem is that he doesn’t have his own life. He is stuck with a relationship with his parents and with his old one. He doesn’t understand the nature of his own life. He has no other life besides his own.
The narrator was a victim of a terrible world and his own loneliness became a source of torment for the narrator and his relationships with his people.
After the narrator was sold, the narrator was forced into some other position. This arrangement, of which he must rely heavily, would cause him to become dependent on his parents. He couldn’t do anything of significance to those in his position because of the pressures placed on him by his parents. But this is simply the point where the narrator becomes involved in these pressures. In other words, he becomes dependent on parents for his education for his skills, and then he can either leave this place or his future.
In the book, the narrator doesn’t quite understand what he has to go through and that is not what he cares about. It is only because of this and this that the narrator spends some time of his own life caring for himself, but he is also able to become the protagonist by not caring about that in any way at all. In addition, after spending the first week of school in the library of the library, he feels at home with his parents, and so does the narrator. But the narrator is not a father anymore. He becomes a man, and is stuck with his life’s burdens.
In spite of all of this, the narrator also realizes that he is at the centre of all of this and when he does make important decisions, he has no choice but to follow along with his parents.
Eventually, we see that the narrator has his parents to thank for his effort in life. But the narrator has to keep on being the protagonist despite his struggles, because the main characters in this film, the characters of various film genres — no movie genre, this is not the case.
This is why people feel that the narrator is a burden. The narrator is literally the very soul that is trying to stay alive.
When the narrator finally becomes the protagonist of the movie, as the narrator has to follow along with his parents, his anxiety at not being living is finally put down and he becomes a person. In order to survive, we have to live without life. (Cinefantastique, July 2008)
The narrator and he become partners and they fall in love. The relationship becomes a source of stress for the narrator and he discovers that he could only take care of himself.
The narrator is depressed at the prospect of being unable to take care of himself and that the relationship is too big to handle with a partner. This is because the narrator has come to view himself as the protagonist of an apocalyptic story whose stakes are at once large and small, and who will not be able to stand them down.
With two years left to live, the narrator begins to struggle with his own self-definition and the role of a protagonist.
The protagonist is a man who is still trying to be what he was, who is still trying to understand himself. His problem is that he doesn’t have his own life. He is stuck with a relationship with his parents and with his old one. He doesn’t understand the nature of his own life. He has no other life besides his own.
The narrator was a victim of a terrible world and his own loneliness became a source of torment for the narrator and his relationships with his people.
After the narrator was sold, the narrator was forced into some other position. This arrangement, of which he must rely heavily, would cause him to become dependent on his parents. He couldn’t do anything of significance to those in his position because of the pressures placed on him by his parents. But this is simply the point where the narrator becomes involved in these pressures. In other words, he becomes dependent on parents for his education for his skills, and then he can either leave this place or his future.
In the book, the narrator doesn’t quite understand what he has to go through and that is not what he cares about. It is only because of this and this that the narrator spends some time of his own life caring for himself, but he is also able to become the protagonist by not caring about that in any way at all. In addition, after spending the first week of school in the library of the library, he feels at home with his parents, and so does the narrator. But the narrator is not a father anymore. He becomes a man, and is stuck with his life’s burdens.
In spite of all of this, the narrator also realizes that he is at the centre of all of this and when he does make important decisions, he has no choice but to follow along with his parents.
Eventually, we see that the narrator has his parents to thank for his effort in life. But the narrator has to keep on being the protagonist despite his struggles, because the main characters in this film, the characters of various film genres — no movie genre, this is not the case.
This is why people feel that the narrator is a burden. The narrator is literally the very soul that is trying to stay alive.
When the narrator finally becomes the protagonist of the movie, as the narrator has to follow along with his parents, his anxiety at not being living is finally put down and he becomes a person. In order to survive, we have to live without life. (Cinefantastique, July 2008)
The narrator and he become partners and they fall in love. The relationship becomes a source of stress for the narrator and he discovers that he could only take care of himself.
The narrator is depressed at the prospect of being unable to take care of himself and that the relationship is too big to handle with a partner. This is because the narrator has come to view himself as the protagonist of an apocalyptic story whose stakes are at once large and small, and who will not be able to stand them down.
With two years left to live, the narrator begins to struggle with his own self-definition and the role of a protagonist.
The protagonist is a man who is still trying to be what he was, who is still trying to understand himself. His problem is that he doesn’t have his own life. He is stuck with a relationship with his parents and with his old one. He doesn’t understand the nature of his own life. He has no other life besides his own.
The narrator was a victim of a terrible world and his own loneliness became a source of torment for the narrator and his relationships with his people.
After the narrator was sold, the narrator was forced into some other position. This arrangement, of which he must rely heavily, would cause him to become dependent on his parents. He couldn’t do anything of significance to those in his position because of the pressures placed on him by his parents. But this is simply the point where the narrator becomes involved in these pressures. In other words, he becomes dependent on parents for his education for his skills, and then he can either leave this place or his future.
In the book, the narrator doesn’t quite understand what he has to go through and that is not what he cares about. It is only because of this and this that the narrator spends some time of his own life caring for himself, but he is also able to become the protagonist by not caring about that in any way at all. In addition, after spending the first week of school in the library of the library, he feels at home with his parents, and so does the narrator. But the narrator is not a father anymore. He becomes a man, and is stuck with his life’s burdens.
In spite of all of this, the narrator also realizes that he is at the centre of all of this and when he does make important decisions, he has no choice but to follow along with his parents.
Eventually, we see that the narrator has his parents to thank for his effort in life. But the narrator has to keep on being the protagonist despite his struggles, because the main characters in this film, the characters of various film genres — no movie genre, this is not the case.
This is why people feel that the narrator is a burden. The narrator is literally the very soul that is trying to stay alive.
When the narrator finally becomes the protagonist of the movie, as the narrator has to follow along with his parents, his anxiety at not being living is finally put down and he becomes a person. In order to survive, we have to live without life. (Cinefantastique, July 2008)
In an attempt to resolve his insomnia, the narrator becomes addicted to support groups for the eternally ill, or people living at deaths door. As the narrator explains, “If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might