Chapter 3 and 4 Summary

The narrator travels a lot for his job. He is constantly waking up in a different city. He is living what he calls a disposable, single-serving life. The narrator often dreams of the different ways he could die and prays for death. He makes his living as a recall campaign coordinator. Using a simple formula, he decides whether to recall a faulty vehicle, or pay the damages for each individual claim. This job provides plenty of information about shady business practices and gives the narrator a lot of job security as a result. On one of his trips, he is at the beach and meets a man named Tyler Durden.

By chance one day, the narrator wakes up on the beach to see Tyler crafting a hand in the sand out of driftwood. As the sun beats down on the sculpture...