Character Analysis: Fight Club

Character Analysis: Fight Club

MARLA

her importance (vague)

her personality

her significance to tyler vs. narrator

marla=key to freedom

conclusion

Marla Singer is a very important part of Fight Club. In the beginning,
the narrator states that Marla is connected to everything, and this
becomes more clear as one progresses through the novel. She has a very
strong impact on the Narrator/Tyler. She is the Narrators enlightenment
and is what Comes between the Narrator and his alter ego, Tyler. She is a very
important character who is hard to appreciate in the beginning of the book
but over time becomes very vital to the narrators sanity.

Marla is described as a wart, a pest, and a fake in the beginning of
the story. She is a chainsmoking, hot mess. Her and the narrator meet
at support groups that they both attend. Neither one of them are dying
but still attend them for different reasons. she is also a theift and
steals random clothes from laundromats for money. She is also very
emotionally unstable, but shares Tylers beliefs on consumer culture,
and share a very intimate relationship.

She and the narrator have a very confusing relationship because of Tyler.
Also, the lack of knowledge that Tyler and the Narrator are the same person is where the
real confusion lies. The Narrator does not discover that Tyler is in his
head really puts a load on their relationship and leaves Marla very confused.
Marla Singer’s character is crucial in the development and destruction of the
narrator's illusion of who he calls Tyler. As soon as the narrat or discovers
that Tyler is only making a mess of things, he discovers his true feelings
for Marla and puts an end to his alter ego.

The reason Fight Club and Marla are never associated is because she
would have become involved. Tyler found Marla to be a threat to
Fight Club, and to Project Mayhem. If she had known about either of
these things, she would have most likely gotten in the way and tried
to stop it. This...

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