Tyler Duren's Allegory: Fight Club

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Tyler Durens work of art known as Fight Club is an allegory set to take place in a postmodern society filled with consumerism, along with the men having gray collar jobs who lack of masculine identity and the segregation of the society based on social class created by our worldly society. Fight Club starts off with a narrator who we do not know the name of but is later on to be known as Jack. He goes on and on about how he came to know Tyler Duren. It comes as a surprise that Tyler Duren is actually the alter ego of the narrator. They create what we know as Fight Club which is an underground boxing club and as Tyler becomes top dog Fight club starts to turn into project Mayhem. Marla singer plays a big role in his life because she is the reason

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