Fight Club Postmodernist

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Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes from a part of his life when he was a bodybuilding model. Our last character is the narrator, who is believed to be Tyler’s alter-ego. In Tyler’s life, he is trying to find a way to escape the outside world and decides that creating a club where a fight …show more content…
Also, we find that the end of the book repeats the beginning. Fight Club is figured to be a third person perspective about the characters. Towards the ending, we see that the words ‘I, you, and we’ are becoming more known. ‘I’ is Tyler becoming a part of the narrator. Yet, you and we is a multiplicity which Tyler is trying to avoid. “You can probably find it on the list Patrick Madden was compiling, poor dead Patrick Madden”(199). This is the first sentence that shows ‘you’ will become more seen in the text. A multiplicity of words combing with the story more often gives away the third person perspective. Repetitive elements in Fight Club are the more known parts. The three rules state that you do not talk about Fight Club and if one goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. The last is only two guys to a fight. In the beginning of the book, it starts out with the narrator on the building with Tyler’s gun pointing in his mouth. As Tyler pulls the trigger, it starts out as the narrator talking about his life. In contrast, at the end of the novel, the story repeats, yet Tyler pulls the trigger and dies. “One hundred and ninety-one floors up, you look over the edge of the roof and the street below is mottled with a shag carpet of people, standing, looking up”(12). This is where the narrator is referring to as Tyler has his gun pointed into his mouth, for this building is also monumental, or an important part of the

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