Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996, Fight Club, started out as a book that inspired a massive following. Its popularity prompted David Fincher to use its storyline to shoot the 1999 movie by the same title. Like the novel, the movie also garnered a cultic following. The novel focuses on an unreliable and seemingly tormented narrator, whose name remains unnamed, and his relationship with the mysterious Tyler Durden. The duo creates a fight club, an underground boxing club, which later grows into an organization whose mission, Project Mayhem, is to tear down the social structure. The book entails anti-consumerism ideals and taps into human emotion on this very subject. Both protagonists appear to have deep-seated issues and, in the end, it emerges that they are, indeed, the same person despite their differing psyches (Wartenberg 41).
The narrator, co-creator of fight club is an insomniac, who holds a job in the automobile industry. He despises his job and his station in life. He is in enviable physical health, yet he attends a number of support groups for people living with terminal diseases. Toward the end of the book, he discovers that he and Tyler are the same person. However, it already too late for the narrator, as he has unwittingly adopted some of Tyler’s persona. In the beginning, the two are inseparable, but the situation changes when the narrator realizes that Tyler is going to take over his life and make the narrator lose himself (Wartenberg 98). On the other hand, Tyler, is a vicious, yet charismatic individual. He is also the leader of the fight club. In the beginning, Tyler's relationship with the narrator is friendly, but Tyler later becomes the main antagonist. Throughout the book, he is perfectly aware that he and the narrator are the same person, yet he refrains from sharing this information. He hopes that the situation makes it easy for him to take over the