MSS141: Questions for Fight Club, ch. 1-14 (pp. 11-111)

1.  How does the narrator describe his insomnia?  How do the frequent plane trips play into his sleep problems?

2.  What is the narrator's life like before he meets Tyler Durden?

3.  Why does the narrator go to the various support groups?  Why does Marla?  What do they seek?

4.  Describe the narrator's relationship to Tyler and to Marla, as individuals and as a couple.

5.  What is Fight Club?  What does it provide for the narrator?

6.  Why do they make soap?

7.  Why does Tyler talk about hitting bottom?  What does he mean by this?  What are some of the strategies he advocates for hitting rock bottom?

**8.  Is this a novel about escape?  What parallels, if any, do you see between it and "Brazil"?