The Narrator in Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club” is a man who deals with many problems from his childhood and present life. The Narrator who is never named, is identical as everyone else in the capitalist society is looking for meaning in their life. The Narrator works in the office, and he hates his job. Because he lives in a nice apartment with nice IKEA furniture, he has to work the job he doesn’t like; thus, he feels unfulfilled and unhappy. Since the support group can’t help him enough to fill his emptiness, he creates Tyler Durden who is a split of his personality, someone he always wants to be. Through Tyler, he creates Fight Club and Project Mayhem. The Narrator is changed by his experience with fight club; therefore, he understands more
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Our narrator is not happy with his life, he feels unfulfilled, and trapped in the depths of insomnia. Tyler is created as someone our narrator always wants to be. Tyler is free, he can do everything he wants. In the beginning, the narrator stands aside and lets Tyler take care of everything. Tyler destroys our narrator’s house, furniture and job, and claims that this destruction is to ultimately destroy the wheels of capitalism from trapping the narrator “the things you used to own, now they own you” (43). Tyler destroys the narrator’s things because he thinks that life with freedom is more important than materials. Tyler says that, “It’s only after you’ve lost everything…, that you’re free to do anything” (70). The narrator wants to buys things to fill his emptiness, but it still doesn’t make him happy because he has to work in a job he doesn’t like just to pay for his worthless, meaningless things. Therefore, when his apartment, his furniture, and his job are destroyed, he is free of all distraction, so that he can now turn the focus onto himself, and what is really important in his life. The Narrator’s life can reflect to our life. We buy unnecessary materials to become others and work hard to pay for what we don’t need. Hermann Hesse says that, “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each other’s opposite and complement”. This quote states that our Narrator is doing a right thing when he destroys everything he has through Tyler, he feels free and completed. We don’t feel happy when we chase things to become other but ourselves. We need to give up things, free ourselves to search who we are what we really need. That is our life, not other’s
Our narrator is not happy with his life, he feels unfulfilled, and trapped in the depths of insomnia. Tyler is created as someone our narrator always wants to be. Tyler is free, he can do everything he wants. In the beginning, the narrator stands aside and lets Tyler take care of everything. Tyler destroys our narrator’s house, furniture and job, and claims that this destruction is to ultimately destroy the wheels of capitalism from trapping the narrator “the things you used to own, now they own you” (43). Tyler destroys the narrator’s things because he thinks that life with freedom is more important than materials. Tyler says that, “It’s only after you’ve lost everything…, that you’re free to do anything” (70). The narrator wants to buys things to fill his emptiness, but it still doesn’t make him happy because he has to work in a job he doesn’t like just to pay for his worthless, meaningless things. Therefore, when his apartment, his furniture, and his job are destroyed, he is free of all distraction, so that he can now turn the focus onto himself, and what is really important in his life. The Narrator’s life can reflect to our life. We buy unnecessary materials to become others and work hard to pay for what we don’t need. Hermann Hesse says that, “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each other’s opposite and complement”. This quote states that our Narrator is doing a right thing when he destroys everything he has through Tyler, he feels free and completed. We don’t feel happy when we chase things to become other but ourselves. We need to give up things, free ourselves to search who we are what we really need. That is our life, not other’s