Fight Club tells the story of an everyday man who wanders from the safety of his nine-to-five life into a no-man's-land of violence and social destruction. The protagonist, played by Edward Norton, is a white-collared American nobody who joins an underground boxing society and engages in bare fisted fighting in an attempt to recover his sense of manhood. How did he lose it you ask? By trying to achieve the American Dream--the right job, home, …showed first 75 words of 997 total…

…showed last 75 words of 997 total…had to prove his masculinity to anyone, he just had to realize the truth, and that's what Tyler did to him, the last task is what finished the process and made him a true man, not in the materialistic/consumerist sense, but in his own eyes. The American dream is nothing but a shroud held over us by corporate America, when you realize you can step through it, you no longer need it to survive.