Fight Club
Before the Narrator actually "meets" Tyler, he sees him in brief, one-frame flashes, representing Tyler's development in his mind. Below is a list of these appearances.
- Tyler is standing in front of the copier at the Narrator's company, as the Narrator says, "Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy."
- When the Narrator goes to the doctor for his insomnia, Tyler appears as the doctor tells him to go to the testicular cancer support group. As the doctor says, "That's pain," Tyler is standing just over his shoulder, laughing.
- At the support group, when the leader says "really open ourselves up," Tyler is smirking and leaning against him with his arm around him.
- After the Narrator confronts Marla and is watching her walk away, Tyler appears in his line of vision, smoking.
- In the Pressman Hotel welcome video, Tyler is the waiter on the far right. (Thanks to Caite!) This appearance isn't actually subliminal. The Narrator, as Tyler, really did work at the Pressman Hotel, so he would have appeared in the video.
- Tyler is riding down an escalator as the Narrator is riding up in an airport.
Nick writes, "In the beginning there are quick flashes of Tyler in the back ground. I counted 3 of them in different times. Later in the movie they explained the projectionist job that Tyler had and how he put pornographic clips in family movies. Do you think those two things have anything in common?"
I hadn't really thought about this before, but it's a good point. The characters are aware that they are in the movie (Tyler's references to "flashback humor," etc.), and Tyler DID splice a porn clip in at the end, so it's very likely that he put himself in as well.
Kevin asks, "...what are your thoughts on why the bullet killed Tyler but not the Narrator? My own theory is that Tyler was destroyed because the Narrator hit bottom when he was so unafraid of death that he was able to put a gun in his mouth and pull the trigger. The Narrator no longer needed Tyler because he had hit bottom, and he had become Tyler."
Cramer replies, "I disagree on this point. Tyler's presence isn't completely gone. While the main internal conflict of the Narrator may have been how to mesh Tyler's and his own personalities together into a single individual, I believe that the reoccuring thesis of "It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything," can explain that Tyler (the rebel, the nonconformist) is not "dead.
Jack is "a twentysomething wage slave" of the late 20th century who bases his identity in his material possessions (Smith 58). The scene in his apartment where he discusses the type of things that he owns illustrates this point, and shows that he thinks he can find happiness and identity in these items. As he walks through the apartment it is portrayed as an Ikea catalog with his possessions having product descriptions and prices underneath them. This illustrates the fact that Jack is trying to find happiness through materialism, which proves to be a very hollow lifestyle to partake in and serves as the main catalyst for the creation of Tyler.
Even though Tyler’s original age was a great window of opportunity, it had to be done. One part that would be suitable to be taken out is Sam looking throughout the town-house they’re stationed at looking for ways out in-case of emergency. Another thing would be when Sam argues with “Marco” about how Tyler shouldn't be playing violent video games when she catches them playing Halo on an Xbox. Something else would be the scene where the doctor is explaining to Danny which medicine to take and when for his leg. Speaking if which, the scene where Danny gets shot by Veith in the beginning ...
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In Fight Club case it is more like a dual personality kind of like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The gothic double would be our nameless narrator and Tyler Durden. Even from the very beginning of the story you realize that the unnamed Narrator is having a major identity crisis. You can see that he feels trapped in the ordinary, corporate world that he lives in. Such an identity crises is described as a very common cause of the appearance of a double. So because the Narrator feels trapped in his own life with no means of escape, he actually unconsciously creates a double which would be Tyler Durden. Tyler will help resurrect him. Tyler is a suppressed double, even though he is evident for the Narrator himself, who primarily sees Tyler as an entirely separate human being, unaware that Tyler is truly a part of his unconscious being projected into his consciousness. Though Tyler is rebellious and destructive, destroying things that are in the Narrator’s life to the Narrator’s initial dismay, the Narrator begins to start accepting these losses as a part of the procedure to becoming a new man. It is not until when Tyler grows too strong, and then Tyler starts to take complete control over the Narrator’s life, that the narrator finds the need to fight back against Tyler. The Narrator already questions his own mental stability, now adding such a psychological double could be a huge problem. Tyler does indeed begin to possess the Narrator and
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