Fight Club - setting

Question 1

Narrator’s apartment - explanation

Answer 1

• filing cabinet represents order
• it shows how everyone there is the same and people and simply fit into the slot their file is meant to go
• described like a prison, society traps people in such residences

Question 2

Narrator’s apartment - quotes

Answer 2

• “a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals”
• “A foot of concrete and air conditioning, you couldn’t open the windows”

Question 3

Marla’s hotel - explanation

Answer 3

• ‘Regent’ literally means someone who rules and gives the impression of glory and majesty (because real ruler is absent)
• Marla being in that hotel shows she is a victim of the ruling class, and is oppressed by society
• sleaze - represents immorality of ruling class, microcosm for construction of society

Question 4

Marla’s hotel - quotes

Answer 4

• “Marla called again from the Regent Hotel”
• “Nothing but brown bricks held together with sleaze.”

Question 5

Paper street house - quotes

Answer 5

“rain trickles down through the house, and everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust.”

Question 6

Paper street house - explanation

Answer 6

• This house itself can be used to represent the state of masculinity in society, once grand and impressive, but now rotting and forgotten.
• Paper street doesn’t really exist, foreshadowing of Tyler being imaginary