There are many repetitive statements made in Fight Club, and I’m wondering if they qualify as leit motif.
Arson meets on Monday
Assault on Tuesday
Mischief meets on Wednesday (pg. 119)
This is the schedule of Project Mayhem. Palahniuk also has used this with his support group meetings, and the whereabouts of Tyler, Marla, and the narrator in relation to each other and other events.
There are a couple of things that this tactic brings to mind. First, I’m still wondering if Tyler exists as a separate entity or an alternate ego of the narrator–there’s another “leit motif” in the book that I found:
I know this because Tyler knows this. (many places)
And secondly, it reveals a need for organization, for structure in a slowly unraveling world.
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