Week 7 WebCT - The Endless Cycle

To sum up Ellis's The Rules of Attraction, I think the quote from Tim
O'Brien's Going After Cacciato says it best:

"The facts even when beaded on a chain, still did not have real order.
Events did not flow. The facts were separate and haphazard and random
even as they happened, episodic, broken, no smooth transitions, no sense
of events unfolding from prior events--"

Though as a reader I could make sense of events for the most part as I
was reading, there is a sense that these events do not matter. They are
doomed to repeat themselves, if not in the exact same way with the exact
same people, then with different people in a slightly different context
somewhere down the line. The characters in Ellis's novel do not seem to
learn from their mistakes, and since they are all chasing or obsessing
after some unattainable ideal to fill the empty void in their respective
lives, it can be assumed that the lives of these characters will be
forever stuck in this cycle of relationships (if one can call them
relationships) gone bad and horribly wrong, with little to no happiness
along the way.