Fight Club Lesson 6
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Fight Club
Lesson 6
Mood
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In Class Today
Summary & Analysis Chapter 10-12
Mood
Mood in Fight Club
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Chapter 10 - Summary
The Narrator assists Tyler during his work as a waiter in a hotel. Tyler urinates in a dish of soup, and he targets the dishes that’ll be served to particularly rich, powerful people.
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What does this passage teach us about Tyler?
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Chapter 10 - analysis
The passage is very unclear about whether or not the Narrator is also a waiter at the hotel (more foreshadowing of the Narrator’s connection to Tyler). Tyler is presented as someone both “wise” and childish, both aggressively confident and condescendingly cruel.
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Chapter 10 - Summary
Tyler once worked as a waiter at a fancy dinner party; afterwards, he left a note saying, “I have passed an amount of urine into at least one of your many elegant fragrances.” Tyler wrote the note, but didn’t actually urinate.
The hostess, Nina, accuses her husband of urinating in the perfume and then smashed all the bottles to the floor, cutting herself.
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What is Tyler trying to achieve here?
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Chapter 10 - Analysis
Tyler uses “psychological warfare” to attack spoiled, rich people. Such people, Tyler claims, are out of touch with life: they’ve distanced themselves from reality (i.e., the same reality of pain, sacrifice, and death that Tyler has tried to pass on to the Narrator)
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Chapter 10 - Summary
The scene returns to the hotel, where Tyler and the Narrator serve the urinated in soup to a convention of dermatologists.
One of the doctors, very drunk, is talking about how hepatitis viruses can survive for half a year. Tyler asks the doctor where he can find some hepatitis “bugs,” (i.e., viruses) and the doctor replies, “everything goes to the medical waste dump.”
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Why would tyler ask this?
What does he want?
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Chapter 11 - Summary
We learn that Tyler makes good money selling his soaps to fancy stores—people say his soap is the best they’ve ever used.
Tyler and the Narrator sit by a used car lot, surrounded by old vehicles. The Narrator explains that he and Tyler can’t go home right now, because Marla has come by the house and accused the Narrator of “cooking her mother.”
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Chapter 11- Analysis
Stores and customers have no idea how savage and violent Tyler is; society is so obsessed with “nice” appearances that it ignores the ugly truths lurking beneath the surface.
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Chapter 11 - Summary
Earlier that night, Marla came to the house with a huge package, that she wanted to put it in the freezer. She insisted that the Narrator had told her she could—something that the Narrator angrily denies. Marla is holding: sandwich bags full of rendered human fat—collagen.
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Chapter 11 - Summary
Later that night, the Narrator learns the truth from Tyler: whenever Marla’s mother has a liposuction, she has the fat stored, in case she needs collagen injections. When Marla’s mother has extra fat, she sends it to Marla.
Tyler proudly tells the Narrator that he’s been making a fortune with Marla’s collagen—he uses it to make soap.
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What do you think the text is trying to say with this passage?
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Chapter 11 - Analysis
Tyler is essentially “recycling” people: converting them back into products and objects. But the conceit of the chapter also alludes to the way that the human body itself has become a product: an object that can be improved and beautified with injections and surgeries.
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Chapter 12 - Summary
The Narrator sits at his desk at work. The Narrator realizes that his car company is going to have to institute a recall—a rarity.
But last week, the Narrator thinks, his company declined to institute a recall for a very serious mistake: leather interiors that caused horrible birth defects.
The company didn’t recall their product because the cost of a recall was greater than the cost of paying off the hundreds of harmed families.
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What do you think the car company might symbolize?
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Chapter 12 - analysis
The car company’s actions symbolize the total amorality of corporations: the company intentionally allows some lives to be lost in order to save some money, because making money is the corporation’s only goal.
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Chapter 12 - Summary
Over the weekend, the Narrator goes to his testicular cancer support group and finds Bob there—but nobody else. Bob, excited to see the Narrator, tells the Narrator that the group has disbanded—everybody has joined a new group, the first rule of which is that “you aren’t support to talk about it.” The founder of this group, Bob says, is a “great man,” “Tyler Durden.”
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Chapter 12 - Analysis
Bob has joined fight club, too, though he seems not to realize that the Narrator is one of the founders. The fact that the testicular cancer support group has joined fight club reinforces the link between death, violence, and masculinity: near death, Bob and his peers fight to celebrate their manhood and the sheer fact of being alive.
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Homework
Monday: read chapters 13-18
Answer this question
What is Project Mayhem?
