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Palahniuk's Fight Club

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of... Commodities In this American society, Americans have grown a fascination with possessions and have become the biggest spenders. They continuously spend more than they earn; we always find an excuse to spend money. Regardless, of our financial means allow us to to purchase a product. . Unfortunately, the American society has become completely monopolized by consumerism and an obsession with shopping. We always find ourselves buying more each day and completely disregard the usefulness or necessity of the product. Consumerism has become part of the American culture and the new American dream. With people constantly judging our daily activities on social media, we have come to believe materialism is …show more content…

We so desperately want approval and we want the world to see our accomplishments and great success in America through material items. Americans new definition of success, values, achievement, opportunity, and hard worked as drastically change; we now believe our self-worth and success is determined by our possessions by a brand. We are never content with the little we have, each day we attempt to satisfy others high needs before our own. For a chance at acceptance or recognition by people, we don’t even care for or talked to. In the novel, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, the novel centers on a modern-day man as the narrator and the protagonist. It focusses on his everyday life working as a specialist for a car company, he expresses the stress his job has been given him with the constant business trips; because of this, he begins to suffer from recurring insomnia. Along the way he seeks treatment, he takes part in visiting a support group for victims of cancer. Despite not having testicular cancer himself as he claims, he finds sharing his problems with others helps him reduces his insomnia. In the support group, he meets a woman by the name of Marla Singer, who is another

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