In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to establish time, place and the mode of events in a story (Hopper, Gale, Foote and Griffith 142). In the novel, Fight Club, the original location of Fight Club does not matter, but its influence on the characters and their ideology makes one to come to the agreement that both Fight Club and Project Mayhem is everywhere. In his apartment, the narrator relaxes in the living room set in Paper Street house, his building is described as a filing cabinet with windows and young professionals (Palahniuk 12). As such, the cabinets can be interpreted to mean being orderly; a character that also drives the narrator to create order in Project Mayhem. So as to deconstruct his life as well as the society, the narrator first has to deconstruct his living room by constructing creating Fight Club and Project Mayhem to give the impression of glory and majesty. The creation of Fight Club in the midst of Paper Street which is described as dangerous where everything are rusted nails to step on can be seen as a way of trying to bring order to masculine power against feminism. The dangerous Paper Street brings out an atmosphere of a decadent urban life where the characters want to make a better life out of it. Paper Street can be representative of the growing discomfort in real life situations whereby one wants to make better life out of challenging situations. Such a setting has a lot of influence in my life. It reminds me of some of the inadequacies that we face everyday such as when we feel that we are less than everyone else. When we try to create order in our everyday experiences, we probably try to build confidence in our abilities instead of emphasizing our inadequacies, same as in the case of Paper Street in Fight Club.

Works Cited

Hopper, Vincent F., Cedric Gale, Ronald C. Foote and Benjamin W. Griffith. Essentials of

English. New York, NY: Barron’s Educational Series, 2010. Print.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. Sydney: Random House Australia, 2011. Print.