I AM JACK'S NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

 

What Wright's analysis implies is that as certain beliefs have become dominant in U.S. society [although they can be used to reflect upon Canadian society because our cultures are so similar, and U.S. films are distributed in Canada as well], they have been reflected in Western films. This has not been done consciously of course, but has occurred because artists, writers, and creative people of all kinds are attuned to dominant codes and reflect these codes in their work (Berger, 154).

Thematically Fight Club has drawn upon a combination of different themes that have stayed socially relevant through time, mostly about love, companionship/brotherhood and respect and what a person must go through to achieve them. This usually took the form of an individual struggle against oneself or society in order to earn the respect, perhaps from oneself, needed in order to move forward. The assault on masculine characteristics prevalent within today's feminist consumer society served as the 'entity' that Jack had to separate himself from in order to find his true self. With the help of an 'emotional crutch' that was an image of his ideal self, Tyler Durden, he was able to find a personally relevant definition of what a 'man' truly was and not what society told him it was.