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 …show more content…
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