Fight Club Analysis

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Danni Haseley Ms. Stovicek English 11011-047 30 April 2013 How Much Can One Mind Handle? He lives an extremely unsatisfying life. He has a boring white-collar job working for a boss whom he strongly dislikes. The people surrounding him are constantly rejecting him. He finds satisfaction in owning unique furniture in an expensive apartment. He finds entertainment in beating up other men in a fight club. In the novel Fight Club, the author, Chuck Palahniuk, creates a nameless character with multiple personality disorders. I will not be going deeply into explaining these disorders, but rather describing how the character exhibits qualities and symptoms of them throughout the novel. The narrator is not officially diagnosed with these conditions but he shows numerous indicators of having more than one. The narrator prides himself in his expansive collection of furniture from IKEA. If he finds a piece he admires, he had to buy it. His constant need to buy more furniture could be a sign of hoarding. According to Mayo Clinic, “hoarding is the excessive collection of items, along with the inability to discard them”. This definition accurately relates to the narrator and his expansive assortment of furniture. Although, the narrator does not see his need to continuously buy more furniture as a disease. He rationales his excessive spending on furniture with saying, “buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled” (Palahniuk 44). Hoarding is often times associated with Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that lead you to do repetitive behaviors, as described by Mayo Clinic. The narrator wants to satisfy his need to have basically every piece of furniture that exists. He also describes his excessive purchasing

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