Fight Club Essay
Meet the protagonist a thirty-year-old insurance investigator with serious mental issues, insomnia, a newly blown up condo on the fifteenth floor and a friend named Tyler Durden. This man, a standard office worker, a slave to the Ikea post order-catalog, is left with no choice when his apartment becomes nothing but a concrete shell in a high-rise building, and he has to call the only man he knows to ask for a place to stay.
He moves in with the mysterious man named Tyler, to a run down wooden house in an area full of factories on Paper Street. After a series of events the two men found ‘Fight Club’, a secret society, that exist only on night a week in the basement of a bar, where young men can set themselves free by fighting each other bare-knuckled. …show more content…
And saying all this without mentioning Marla Singer, a young woman with her own (not so) little problems, who creates a kind of love triangle between her and the two men, would not be describing the plot of this extremely original, mentally shocking book properly.
The three characters mentioned above are also the only characters in the book that actually have a personality. The identities and personalities of these characters, on the other hand, are alone a subject one could write a book about. Tyler is frighteningly mysterious and intelligent in his own destructive way, with his own philosophy of life. The unnamed narrator in the book, which I just named Jack, is, on the other hand, very different from the infinitely self-confident Tyler. He is in fact very insecure, but his personality is obviously not as well described in the book due to the fact that he is the narrator.
The story is based in today’s America in an unknown city. The environment in the book is often described in a very dark and depressing way, but the descriptions are mostly very simple, as the author has put a much larger effort in describing the thoughts of the
He moves in with the mysterious man named Tyler, to a run down wooden house in an area full of factories on Paper Street. After a series of events the two men found ‘Fight Club’, a secret society, that exist only on night a week in the basement of a bar, where young men can set themselves free by fighting each other bare-knuckled. …show more content…
And saying all this without mentioning Marla Singer, a young woman with her own (not so) little problems, who creates a kind of love triangle between her and the two men, would not be describing the plot of this extremely original, mentally shocking book properly.
The three characters mentioned above are also the only characters in the book that actually have a personality. The identities and personalities of these characters, on the other hand, are alone a subject one could write a book about. Tyler is frighteningly mysterious and intelligent in his own destructive way, with his own philosophy of life. The unnamed narrator in the book, which I just named Jack, is, on the other hand, very different from the infinitely self-confident Tyler. He is in fact very insecure, but his personality is obviously not as well described in the book due to the fact that he is the narrator.
The story is based in today’s America in an unknown city. The environment in the book is often described in a very dark and depressing way, but the descriptions are mostly very simple, as the author has put a much larger effort in describing the thoughts of the