Fight Club Analysis
...on an airplane and winds up staying at his place after his own condo mysteriously burns down. Tyler is everything that the Narrator wishes he could be: intelligent, witty, courageous, cool, and attractive amongst a list of other coveted traits. Tyler lives in a dilapidated, funky, old house on the outskirts of town where he is free to live as he pleases. His house is full of nothing of any value; completely opposite of the Narrator’s lavishly furnished condo. Living with Tyler gives him a sense of freedom that he had never experienced – a sense of how it feels to live for things other than being a consumer. Tyler shows him that there is more to life than “working at jobs we hate for shit we don’t need.” Strange as it may sound, the two of them discover that by fist fighting each other they find enormous satisfaction and fulfillment. They begin hosting an underground fighting ring dubbed “Fight Club,” where ordinary Joes can come and duke it out just for the sheer pleasure they get out of it – no money or material reward is involved. This becomes the center of the Narrator’s life. He’s found something to fill the void in his life, something that satisfies his primal urges that have been suppressed by the standards of modern society. Everything else in his life besides “Fight Club” becomes unimportant and vague. It rejuvenates him, as he said it: “You weren’t alive like you were at Fight Club.” The “Fight Club” rapidly evolves into something quite different than originally intended. Tyler takes advantage of his powerful and respected role and begins turning the members into soldiers to act out his revolutionary-like plans. He is against everything that stands for capitalism or consumerism so he has his “troops” destroy corporate logos and perform other pranks that get his “anti-establishment” message across to the public. His ultimate plot involves destroying several credit card buildings that would bring everyone’s debt back to zero. Things begin to spiral out of control in front of the Narrator’s eyes. He thinks Tyler is taking it too far. At this point he no longer agrees with Tyler’s extreme approach to screwing the “system.” He has what you might call an “awakening” and begins to see more clearly what is really going on in his life What the audience, as well as the Narrator, do not find out until the film is nearly over is that Tyler and the Narrator are actually the same person! The whole being of Tyler was invented by the mind of the Narrator. When Tyler was doing or saying something, it was actually the Narrator physically acting it out. The Narrator burned down his own house! The Narrator was the on who created “Fight Club.” No one had ever seen Tyler but the Narrator. My interpretation the Narrator’s fabrication of Tyler involves him ultimately succumbing to his need for something more in his life. He felt like a drone. There was an intrinsic desperation for change because he was so unhappy with himself and the life he was leading. His conscience told him that if something didn’t give, he would be living in a state of boredom and misery for the rest of his life. Even on airplane flights he would wish for an accident, just for something, and for that matter, anything to happen to him The Narrator gave life to his imaginary friend by projecting every asset he longed to have for himself into a single for...