Fight Club

Chris Watkins

Heroes Journey

Mr. Guidone

20 April, 2011

The Mirrors of Society

Society today has come to a standstill with fate and glory. Those who chose the path of fate, are those not willing to look in the mirror everyday and ask themselves who they are and what they have become. Those who reap the benefits of glory, are those who chose to strive for imperfection, and fight to their last breaths for a life they chose to strive for, but not be content with. Each day, a simple yet subtle symbolic mirror, is gazed upon by those who see a person that is imperfect, and willing to go to the ends of the earth to detach from the ideas of perfectionism and try to mend their imperfections. Those who go through life without purpose and don’t face the mirrors in their lives will be dejected about the one life they get to live. Our narrator in Fight Club finds himself stuck in a dispassionate state; buying IKEA furniture for his standard apartment, going to his customary job, wearing the typical dress code attire. He finally looked himself in the mirror, along with the ever so daring Tyler Durden, and fashioned the infamous Fight Club. Although every household in America has mirrors, not many people look and analyze themselves, but nevertheless those chosen few in Fight Club force society to look at those mirrors, because the common person in today’s society lives dejected and unfulfilled.

Consequently, the social order of today can be contrasted in a very glam color of gray. The working middle class is now known as the gray collar people, who are trying to find themselves, or just simply content with their lives. The beginning of chapter three shows the lifestyle that lies within this gray class of society. Our narrators job is a recall campaign coordinator who floats from airport to airport, making so called friends that he will never see again, or as he sates it, “the single used friend you almost died sitting next to says: I hope you make your connection”...