Character Analysis: The Fight Club

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In the modern era, everybody has to find a job to stay alive. No job means no money, and money is a very essential thing in modern life, people can not buy their needs, like food, clothes, a place to stay. Because of their needs of money, people have to work to be paid, so they can continue their life, sometimes they are stranded in a job that they do not like or not a comfortable job for them, and they just took it because they need money, and this can be such a pressure for them. Stranded in a job that they do not like make them feel imprisoned. Pressures caused by the feeling of imprisoned increase. The pressures that cannot be resolved will be repressed, and make a person to be more stressful. This pressures will cause a bad effect on them, …show more content…
He stresses out again, and the insomnia comes back to him, and during that time, the narrator meets Tyler Durden.
Later in the story, the narrator and Tyler Durden esthablish an underground boxing club called Fight Club. The narrator thinks the Fight Club as “an alternative psychological therapy”. Tyler Durden is a man with no “real job”. He does several jobs,
Tyler’s a banquet writer, waiting tables at a hotel, downtown, and Tyler’s projectionist with the projector operator’s union. I don not know how long Tyler had been working on all those nights I could not sleep(Palahniuk, 1996: 27).

The existence Tyler Durden is interesting. Tyler Durden, his presence influences the life of the narrator. Tyler Durden’s personality is really the opposite of the narrator’s. Tyler Durden is everything the narrator’s not, even Tyler Durden is the one who has the initiative to leave the narrator’s green zone, and invents the Fight Club. In the end the narrator finally aware who Tyler Durden really
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Fight Club is a place for them to release their job’s pressures, the “alternative psychological therapy”. Later, Tyler Durden and The Narrator bring this Fight Club to the new level. Fight Club becomes an anarchy movement, which commits a resistance to the consumerism. The phenomena shows that there must be a balance between id, ego, and superego; and how the absent of the father can influence someone’s character. This novel is also a reflection of the American society, where there are a lot of children come from an absent-father family, and the consumerist lifestyle has been spread in

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