Taylor Downs ENG 1101 Mr. Rod McRae November 27, 2008 Fight Club The sign that I have chosen in the movie “Fight Club” is Tyler. Throughout the movie, Tyler is made out to be a real person. But in reality he is not. He is simply a figment of the main character’s imagination. Tyler is what the narrator wishes he could be. Whenever Tyler did anything in the movie, it was really the narrator doing it all. In the movie, the narrator was alienated and depressed. He felt unhappy, unfulfilled, and trapped by insomnia. Feeling hopeless and alone, he joined all of these support groups. He was so desperate to relate to others that he visits support groups for patients with terminal diseases so that he would have people to talk to. One of the support groups that the narrator attended was a group for men suffering from testicular cancer. His doctor recommended it because he wanted the narrator “to see what real suffering is like.” By listening to the emotional problems of suffering people was somewhat an emotional release and he became dependent on those meetings. Downs, 2 One day on a business flight, he meets a soaps salesman named Tyler Durden, a confident guy who seems like he has everything going for him. Tyler is not at all “materialistic.” He believes that one can only learn from a little suffering and chaos. So Tyler challenges the narrator to a fight. After this fight, the narrator felt so alive and free. So he befriended Tyler, and eventually moved in with him. They fought weekly and then a club is formed, which the narrator and Tyler call “Fight Club.” All of this time the narrator thinks that he has found a true friend. He is tricked into thinking that Tyler is a good person, and someone that can help him feel better about himself. But really, Tyler Durden is a man of self-destruction. He makes dynamite from soap, and blows up buildings, creating a collapse of Downs, 3 society. On top of all of that, he makes the narrator believe that there is no harm...