Imagery in Fight Club
Fight Club utilizes imagery a lot throughout the novel. The narrator makes the user visualize much of what he is seeing, sometimes describing how he beat someone up or how someone looked like after he was beaten up. Similarly, imagery is used when the narrator describes how something is made, such as the production of soap or even the creation of explosives such as nitroglycerin. Fight Club paints a picture in almost every scene about what is happening or happened and how it went down.
"You take a 98% concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin." (Palahniuk 12)
"Last week, I tapped a guy and he and I got on the list for a fight. This guy must've had a bad week, got both my arms behind my head in a full nelson and rammed my face into the concrete floor until my teeth bit open the inside of my cheek and my eye was swollen ahut and was bleeding, and after I said, stop, I could look down and there was a print of half my face in blood on the floor" (Palahniuk 42)
"In the starlight, my eyes adjust enough to see smoke braiding up from little fires all around us in the carpet." (Palahniuk, 115)
"TYLER’S STANDING THERE, perfectly handsome and an angel in his everything-blond way" (Palahniuk,155)