Thursday, April 28, 2011

Antiquated Spaces in Fight Club

I'm just going to list the issues with Tyler and "Jack's" house, and these can be found on page 57:


  •  "The shingles on the roof blister, buckle, curl, and the rain comes through and collects on top of the ceiling plaster and drips down through the light fixtures."
  • "When it's raining, we have to pull the fuses. You don't dare turn on the lights."
  • "The 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. [...] Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on."
  • "The house is waiting for something, a zoning change or a will to come out of probate, and then it will be torn down."
  • "There's no lock on the front door from when the police or whoever kicked in the door."
  • "There's nine layers of wallpaper swelling on the dining room walls, flowers under stripes under flowers under birds under grasscloth."
  • "Our only neighbors are a closed machine shop and across the street, a block-long warehouse."
This is the house used in the movie:


This antiquated space relates directly to Jack's devolution - Only when Tyler, his "other" personality, is strong enough to be able to rent homes on his own without Jack's knowledge does this space appear in the novel.

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