Thursday, April 3, 2008
"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything"
Tyler Durden emphasizes the importance of self reliance and the burden that materialism holds. Why does the narrator make such a sharp turn (designer furniture in an apartment to an old house on paper street) in materialistic desire?
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After meeting Tyler and realizing the root of all his problems he begins to stray from his original ways. As it is realized to this point the narrator is an insomniac who gets little sympathy from his doctor for his problem, his treatment for is disorder is sitting in on cancer support groups to see what it is like to have a real problem. He slowly discovers with the help of Tyler that his problem has come from the repetitiveness of his “cookie cutter” life. For this reason the narrator takes a very extreme approach by giving up all materialistic possessions and moving to Paper Street in an attempt to help cure his problem.
The Narrator makes such a sharp turn from material goods to the house of paper street to rebel against the society that he feels has wrongly influenced and formed him. By changing his surrounding and living in poverty, he lives what he feels is a "real life", and is finally free to discover who he is.
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