Entry 10

Plot and Setting

The narrator begins walking down the street to "get rid of Tyler" and then he remembers everything. Everything Tyler has done and is planning, the narrator remembers it. Seeing as how the narrator does know this somewhere in his mind he should be able to understand it. He knows these things because Tyler knows these things.

The narrator realizes that Tyler loves Marla, but so does he. Thus they both love Marla. The narrator realizes that Tyler was create4d because when the narrator met Marla a part of him loved her so he had to createa version of himself that she could fall in love with. Then the narrator goes to a fight club around the corner and gets beaten to a bloody pulp because he lets the other guys win. The narrator wakes up to Tylers voice yelling at him to get up and go somewhere so he does. The next moment they are at the top of a building and Tyler has a gun in the narrator's mouth. This is where the book begins.

Then Marla comes there with everyone from the support groups and tells the narrator not to kill himself because to them it looks as though the narrator is holding the gun. Marla tells him that she has feelings for him, real feelings. The narrator says that he isn't killing himself, he is killing Tyler, he pulls the trigger.

The narrator isn't dead, but Tyler is dead. The narrator sits in a hospital bed with a hole in the side of his face where the bullet had left. the narrator reads his letters from Marla and smiles and a man with a black eye walks into his room and says "We miss you Mr. Durden".


Character

In the last segment of this novel we finally find out the lasting factor that has linked Tyler and the narrator and that is that they both love Marla Singer. They both have fallen in love with her and but only the narrator wants to be with her. We see the true change in Marla's character because she actually tries to save the narrator and tells him her true feelings which shows she has come a long way from her cold-hearted cynicism from the beginning of the book. In this we see the journey that both the narrator and Marla have come so that they can finally be together. Their characters have seemed to develop throughout this entire novel only to lead to each other.

Theme
In this novel, the narrator began with his life in a rut. He had no direction and subconsciously hated his life. Thus his mind created an imaginary person to completely change his life. In turn, this imaginary person was him. I believe the theme of this novel to be the power the human mind has to allow the person it controls to live it's "rightful path". As the narrator was living a life that was wrong for himself, his mind took control of his life and set it in a new direction. This says that the mind has somewhat of a consciousness that it's possessor is unaware of. Therefor the subconscious is really where the true power of the mind lies.