Identity In Fight Club's Fight Club

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In modern society, the search for one’s identity and the impulse to be someone of significance drives all thoughts in actions in everyone’s life. The men that fight in Fight Club rediscover themselves and their primal nature. The personality of Tyler and the narrator seem so different, yet their character traits align throughout the novel. The physiological effects of having another identity within himself cause the narrator to ultimately collapse. The love triangle that the narrator describes between himself, Tyler, and Marla changes his attitude towards the world. We are introduced to the narrator and Tyler Durden at the top of an abandoned building where Tyler holds a gun in the narrators mouth, threatening to kill him. Flashing back …show more content…
The narrator creates his alternate personality to cope with the fact that he is not where he wants to be in life, so Tyler who he wants to be. As a more powerful version of the narrator, “Tyler Durden, [is] an unpredictable young man who suggests they start a fight club, where men participate in fist fights as a way of dealing with personal demons” (“Palahniuk, Chuck” 11). Fighting for these middle class men allows them to release the tension of their everyday lives. The more these men fight, the more they discover the how their primitive nature can distract them from their mediocre lives. As the book progresses, Tyler sees the lives the people in fight club lead, and believes that he has solved their issues. Instead of people trying to get as much personal materialistic goods, “he [Tyler] claims that the drive toward ‘perfection’ has led to the loss of manhood, and has transformed men into a limitless army of purchasers and consumers who slave away in life-draining jobs: ‘Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer’ (49)” (Suglia 3). By destroying themselves, the men in fight club allow their “purchaser and consumer” brains to release the stress of everyday activities and just use their natural senses to fight to
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