Purpose Of Project Mayhem

A difficulty I found myself in was the scene with Raymond K. Hessel. The narrator confronts him to live his dream as a veterinarian instead of going on and working at the Korner market. The narrator then says to him, “tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life” (Palahniuk 155). What I had thought of Project Mayhem was to get out of the ordinary lives that society has instilled in us, which was to go to college, get a good job, and buy stuff from IKEA. Wasn’t that the point of all the insanity of Project Mayhem, to get out of that ordinary way of living? And yet, he’s technically telling this guy to get into student debt and then spend the rest of his life trying to pay it off. It’s beating the sole purpose of everything, to take life in its natural course. My plan in dealing with this difficulty is to carefully analyze the purpose of having your dream job to just following life in its natural course. I will also figure out, if there is any deeper meaning to the purpose of Project Mayhem.

Part II Mostly all of the members of Project Mayhem are middleclass men unsatisfied with their lives and have nothing exciting going for them. And so, they join Fight Club, trying to be a part of something, looking for an easy purpose to life. By taking their unsatisfied lives, their
Hessel is all based on near-life experience. Most of all the “assignments” given to the men are dangerous and have actually killed a couple, and yet, why even put these guys through it, if they’re going to die anyway? Because they wouldn’t change anything anyway, they are way too deep into Project Mayhem. I feel that these middle-class men, who have nothing going for them are the exception to becoming something. For the reason that what they ever really wanted was to be a part of something bigger in where one of them, a middleclass man (the narrator), overcomes their sad little life and becomes cool and fearless, which in this case is Tyler