Fight Club Ending/Theme

At the end of Fight Club I decided to revise my theme for the story, I believe Fight Club is about a man seeing no purpose and no reason for everything in his own existence. So his mind creates a purpose for him to live. It forces him to become a leader, a lover, and a happier person. Tyler saved him from his own destruction in the end, he taught him to find his true manhood and well as his soul. At the end of the book he learns Tyler will soon blow up half the city. The only way to stop Tyler.. himself, is to put a bullet in his mouth. As Marla watches he shoots a bullet in his mouth. The bullet fly's out the side of his mouth, but kills Tyler. The act of attempting to kill himself in order to kill Tyler was enough to subconsciously kill Tyler, and he survived in the process. Fight Club in the simplest way, is about founding a purpose for yourself, in a world where there isn't one. 

Fight Club: Plot Twist

The big revelation of Fight Club was revealed in my last reading and it all makes sense to me. The reason for the main characters confusion, his insanity, and his need for destruction. Tyler Durden is him. He is Tyler Durden. When he sleeps, Tyler wakes up and carries out Project Mayhem. Tyler is who he wants to be deep down. he wants people to look at him like they do Tyler, especially Marla. He realizes he's in love with Marla and that his brain created Tyler to reach Marla. But he doesn't want the world to burn. He doesn't want Tyler to carry out his plans. He is scared of Tyler. He plans on killing Tyler and saving himself from his own demise.

Fight Club: Characterization

Tyler has set in place "Project Mayhem" he wants human nature as we know it, to crumble and burn. He thinks we should roam the earth wild, fighting for our food and supplies. Survive rather than thrive. He hates everything and everyone, he wants to plant bombs all around a city and click the button that destroys it all. He says people try to find comfort through god in hard times, but they don't get his attention. He wants to get gods attention and he thinks this negative attention is better than being ignored by god. Tyler is recruiting 72 Fight Club members for Project Mayhem. They all have assigned jobs in the project. The first rule of Project Mayhem is.. Don't talk about Project Mayhem.

Fight Club: Analyze

As the story continues, the confusion of "Fight Club" reflects through the psyche of it's protagonist. His sense of humor is dark and disturbing, and he doesn't see it that way. His mind drifts and relates random memories to newer memories in odd eccentric ways. He is beginning to act more like Tyler, despising the world and its inhabitants. He recognizes his change in behavior also, but he embraces it. He talks about the destruction of his apartment as the destruction of himself. And it wasn't a rebirth, just his own destruction. He is nothing but a meaningless pawn in a pointless game of life. In the end of my reading he asks a hotel receptionist to stop hitting him, even though the receptionist hadn't touched him. He then proceeds to throw himself into the nearest wall and punch himself and the receptionist until they each bled. He giggles and repeats "stop punching me!" It's obvious he is losing his mind in a way I don't understand yet.

Fight Club: Analyzation

The relationship between Tyler and the main character has a deeper unheard of meaning I feel. Tyler has never had any interaction with Marla unless they are in bed together. Whenever Marla comes in Tyler just "vanishes." He seems to have a grip over protagonist on a much deeper level. He has some kind of "initiation" with protagonist in which he says "your life before now has been a story, after this the rest of your life is a story. He then proceeds to kiss the protagonist's hand and an odd mark is left behind. His lips were covered in a poison that will turn into a strong acid if water is applied. He then talks the protagonist through a somewhat spiritual journey similar to the therapy at his seminars. He tells him not to cry, because the tears will burn his hand and he says he must except that death will be his fate one day, let go. And when he opens his eyes there are burn marks on his hands and Tyler is crying. I don't know the connection between Tyler and our main character yet but I'm more than excited to find out.

Fight Club: Theme

Now fight club deepens in plot and confusion, as well as begins to start telling a story of morals and manhood. The protagonists apartment blows up in a fiery explosion one day while he's traveling forcing him to stay with his only friend Tyler. One night at the bar both are drunk and Tyler asks to be punched in the stomach. The protagonist proceeds to lay one into his face. Tyler responds without warning and they launch into an all out fight. But the point was not to harm the other in anger, but to let all that bent up aggression out on the other guy. They continued this in the coming weeks growing spectators. Others would soon fight also for the same goal. So they decided to find a better place where they could continue their "therapy" which they found to be the basement of a neighboring bar after closing. A list of rules were created. One, don't talk about Fight Club. Two, Don't talk about fight club. And three, if this is your first night you have to fight. The club gave these men more drive to work and stay fit, Fight Club gave them a new sense of what being a man was, and they knew it wasn't sculpting their body for their image. They went to the gym and kept themselves fit so they could hit harder and take more hits. This all alludes to what I think is the Theme of "Fight Club" which is that the world is to boring for some, new outlets can be made. Tyler and our main character found something that reached their animalistic lust for violence as well as their need for brotherhood. Also Tyler is sleeping with Marla Singer. The woman the main character hates.

Fight Club: Main Character

"Fight Club" written by Chuck Palahniuk has so far introduced me to a nameless protagonist and his struggles against depression, insomnia, and overall bad outlook on life. The first chapter alludes to what I assume is the end of the book where the protagonist has a gun in his mouth and there are bombs ready to explode in neighboring buildings. But the very next chapter talks about his sad need to attend different seminars for people who are clinically ill and reaching death soon. This is the only thing that allows him to sleep. He enjoys sobbing and letting all his pain out with the dying people, who believe he is also dying. But a problem occurs, and her name is Marla Singer. Her stare lets him know that SHE knows, that he is a fake. This keeps him from crying, therefore sleeping. He wants to address this issue to her for this is his only outlet in life. Another seemingly important character in this book is Tyler Durden. He has been talked about a lot but in meaningless ways. Only explaining Tylers job and his encounter with the main protagonist. So far not much makes any sense in Fight Club. With it's plot being intentionally told to confuse the reader it has intrigued me to uncover it's secrets.