Fight Club (analysis of great
"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." In Fight club, we meet our main character that comes to us without a name. He can be referred to as, "Jerry", but his name is not important. He comes to us without a name because he represents any one man of those Generation X males living in our society at present. Jerry is a thirty-year-old man employed as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. He lives in condo that is furnished with all the comforts of modern society, namely mass-produced furnishings that can be found in the homes of millions across North America. Jerry owns a car and has obtained a respectable wardrobe for himself over the course of time, but despite all those things, Jerry is not satisfied with his life. This is because Generation X males are dissatisfied, unhappy, confused or lost. Many people find that it is impossible to obtain a job or career where they are not part of the service industry in some way, shape or form. As societies priorities have become more and more materialistic and consumer-driven, people are finding themselves more and more distracted w
Jerry asks his doctor for help and his doctor advises him to attend some of the support groups at a local church. The Fight Club has been officially established as a therapy session for gray collar workers, which Tyler believes, cleanses it of negative, meaningless violence. Jerry realizes that he and Tyler are one person and that he has been living vicariously through this fictional character. When Jerry realizes he has lost his home and all his possessions he suddenly feels a sense that he is truly alone. " It is implied that the average ' Generation X' male also fells this way and has difficulty coping in society where people are too busy to listen. During Jerry's attendance at his weekly meeting he discovers a way of dealing with some his problems, through the use of guided meditation. ith their possessions, rather than with others. The destruction of all major credit card establishments so that each person can start all over from ground zero. The answer might be to abandon all of the materialism and greed that has consumed our culture and resort back to the old days. It is appealing that reverting back to a primitive hunter-gatherer sort of society is so attractive to Tyler and that he truly feels that this is the solution to all life's problems. Tyler is illustrating here that people in modern society have become so consumed with what they own that their possession begin to own them. People today have become to overwhelm with consumerism forgetting that objects do not bring them ultimate happiness.
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