Entry 7

Plot and Setting

Even though the narrator is no longer working, he still occasionally flies out to different cities to do the minimal amount of work possible to still get paid. However everywhere he goes, someone knows him. Everywhere he visits he sees bruised and broken men who have obviously been to Fight Club and they continuously call him sir. Then it seems as if everywhere he visits, these people act as if he has just been there but the narrator is confused as to why because he was just on a plane and couldn't have just been there...

Eventually the narrator asks one of the men who recognizes him and asks him why he knows him and the bruised man replies with " You were just here yesterday Mr. Durden." He asks the man why he is calling him Tyler Durden because that is not his name and the man asks if this is a test. The narrator doesn't understand this because how could they mistake him for Tyler, but how then he doesn't understand how Tyler could have gone to all the same places that the narrator was going to be. He is very confused.

The narrator has a strange idea so he calls Marla and asks her if the two of them have ever had sex. She asks if he is on drugs and begins to get angry with his strange behavior. He asks again and again until she finally answers with YES they have had sex. the narrator is bewildered and has no reaction.

Character

In this section of the book, we are only involved with the character of the narrator who is becoming to seem more and more insane. The only thing that he seems to be able make out of all these events is that him and Tyler are the same person but how can that be? Tyler and the narrator have fought one another at fight club. However there has never been a time when Tyler and the narrator have been in the same place at the same time, both interacting with one person, for example when Marla continues to enter and re-enter the room and Tyler keeps disappearing. The only logical thing that can be understood is that the narrator has two personalities. One being himself that we know and the other being TYLER DURDEN. This makes sense when we refer back to my comment about how I stated that Tyler and the narrator balance each other out because they are so different. This makes total sense because they would both be different halves of the narrator's personalities.

Theme

The only evidence of a theme in this chapter is the power of the human mind. It is awesome in it's abilities to hide things from itself which shows how easy practically anyone could be completely insane and remain completely oblivious to the fact. As the narrator demonstrates both his personalities of both the people inside him, he remains completely oblivious to the fact that they are the same person. If the mind can play tricks on us that easily, how can we ever be sure of anything? I could murder someone tonight when I go to sleep and I wouldn't even know it.