Fight Club - Chapters 6-12 Discussion
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Fight Club - Chapters 6-12 Discussion
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*Repressed self- major theme! Is it in everyone? I feel it is, and the narrator is just the extreme version of how most people feel- he breaks.
* Dark side- not darth vader dark- but noir in a sense. The FIght CLub for instance, the animalistic urge. What is this? "I felt like destroying something beautiful..."
*Double selves? Who is Tyler Durden?
*Who is Marla? What does she stand for?
*All the meetings, the AA, the NA, the need for them, it stops, why?* The escalation of the novel is peaking- wha tis the high point?
Please continue on- this book is full of things that can be easiliy missed- I look forward to reading what you guys see!
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Marla is a tragic character who is both a source of annoyance and affection? for Tyler (and the narrator). The narrator feels that she already ruined the support groups he attends and when she starts showing up and spending time with Tyler, it's just too much.Who is Marla? What does she stand for?
He's afraid to lose Tyler (himself) in a relationship with Marla.Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.
the narrator goes to the support groups to fill a void, to be with people who have actually "hit bottom" the place he never seems to be able to reach. fight club somehow fills this void for him as well, but in a very different way. it's the feeling of being a hero for a minute during your seemingly unimportant life where you work 9-5 sitting in a cube at a thankless job. the role you have outside of fight club becomes irrelevent when you're at fight club.All the meetings, the AA, the NA, the need for them, it stops, why?
a couple of things that have not been touched on yet - Tyler burnes the narrator with the lye and tells him to focus on the pain because this is the greatest moment of your life. everything before and after this moment will just be a story. and also tells the narrator
how does this unbearable pain change the narrator's life? he now has a scar that he'll carry forever as a reminder of what Tyler said and it seems to me that Tyler believes that fight club is not enough anymore, it needs to be kicked up a notch."without death, pain or sacrifice, we would have nothing."
Another important thing going on, Tyler works as a "renegade" waiter at prominent hotel events and pees, sneezes, etc in rich people's food. Is this just another way he's getting back at society in general or the rich specifically? Again, is fight club not enough? The fight club mantra seems to be expanding into other realms. Where is this going?
that's all i have for now...
ps - also sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well... hope you're feeling better!
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