Fight Club Essay

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The movie Fight Club takes place in Wilmington, Delaware and starts off with a narrator, whose name is unknown, that works for an auto insurance company. He suffers from insomnia and his doctor refuses to prescribe him medication for it. Instead he suggests that he attends a support group for testicular cancer victims. Once the narrator attends the support group, he realized that it gives him some sort of emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He quickly becomes addicted to attending support groups and pretends to be a victim. While attending a support group for cancer patients he meets Marla Singer. He realizes that she is also an imposter. This doesn’t sit well with him, so he negotiates with her to avoid meeting her at the same groups.
The narrator arrives home, after returning from one of his business trips to find that his apartment had been destroyed by an
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Tyler and Marla soon become sexually involved with each other, and Tyler warns the narrator to never talk to Marla about him. The “Fight Club” starts to expand across the country under Tyler’s leadership. It becomes more anti-materialist and anti-corporate and is now called “Project Mayhem”. When the narrator complains to Tyler about becoming more involved with the organization, Tyler suddenly disappears. The narrator tries to shut down “Project Mayhem” when a member is killed by the police during a botched sabotaged operation. He then finds evidence of Tyler’s national travels to track him down. When the narrator arrives in one of the cities, a member of the organization greets him as Tyler Durden. At the narrator's hotel room, he discovers that Marla also believes him to be Tyler as well when he makes a phone call to her. Tyler suddenly appears in his room, and Tyler reveals to him that they are dissociated personalities in the same

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