When they're together, who is who? For example, when they're in the car together, is he Tyler or is he just imagining Tyler. I'm just confused because when Tyler was revealing himself in the hotel room, he says the narrator can only see him because he's asleep. But if he's asleep, he is Tyler, not himself. Is it just that when he wakes up and recalls the events, even though he was Tyler, he still refers to Tyler in the third person, thinking he was himself?

If chucks gay that means a lot of guys around here were true when they called Tyler-a man i was technically worshiping and trying to follow now iam not gay but tell me this if chucks gay then how come one can be so sure that Tyler is gay too?

At the ending of the novel the narrator ends up in a mental institution which he believes (or wants to believe) is heaven, and he says that Marla writes to him from earth and that "she says that someday, they'll bring me back", a bit after that he's talking to his psychiatrist (who he believes to be god) and it is explained that the mental institution is full of space monkeys (or at least the low-paying jobs), the question i had basically is, since he says that he doesn't want go back, not yet at least.
Is that supposed to mean that he someday (if ever) will be able to get out of the institution and have the posibility of being with Marla? Or is it supposed to imply that the space monkeys willl keep him there until Tyler returns (if he ever does)?.

Sorry if my question is too dumb, but it's just been on my head for quite a while.

I read this in another forum thread some while ago and it's been on my head ever since.

Hi guys,

Long being a convert of the film, when I finally had a little bit of money to spare and the time to read it, I bought a "first edition" copy of Fight Club from a seller on eBay.

Even though a new edition was freely available in my local bookshop, I did this because I wanted one specifically free of imagery from the successive film.

Now, I'm not under the illusion that what I bought was a first print of the first edition (probably a third print or something). However, when it arrived, I had to ask myself something I never had to before, i.e. "Is there such a thing as a counterfeit book?"

If you take a look at the photos I've taken of it at the link below (it's not a link to malware, I promise - just to a picasa web album) you can see that the pages look as though they were cut with a child's scissors. And even worse, the widths of the pages are all messed up, meaning that I can't even easily flick through my long-awaited copy of Fight Club. read more »

For some reason. I though while i read Fight Club that the narrator knew since childhood (or around college) how his life would go (boring and meaningless job and life)and pretty much gave up to that since he though there was nothing he could do to change that (until tyler) but then tyler brought all that chaos and freedom it to its exaggeration (the space monkeys and project mayhem). Sorry for being unclear, i think my point is, even with marla and tyler, with the way he was, he really did not have another choice or way for him than the one in the novel?

Fight Club has become a huge cult classic and cultural phenomenon by now, and i hope (along with many people i think) they would include it in the AFI, and i know it has a lot of meanings and interpretation, i always felt that one of the main ones was to take control of your own life instead of just sitting in your couch and seeing TV, In an interview they made Brad Pitt and Edward Norton about fight club they actually say "i always felt it was like that, in society we're too much as spectators, and basically that's the main appeal fight club has, of stopping from being a spectator and being a participator, a creator." (it is kind of badly quoted, and sorry for my shitty english, i'm a little sleep deprived.). read more »

So, at the end of fight club, the narrator ends up in an hospital which he thinks is heaven, but i had two questions about it: first, it seems as if he somewhat knows he is not actually in heaven, since he says things like "calling marla from heaven" and says that marla writes to him from earth, i know that the narrator is crazy and fucked up but it seems that even in the ending he should have enough sanity to reason that those things are impossible (or else someone in history would have done that). And second, ¿does he have the possibility of abandoning the hospital?, it says that there are space monkeys in there, and that they are expecting him to "return" as Tyler, but it's somewhat shown in the novel that women and older men are not members of Fight Club and Project Mayhem (The Shrink, which the narrator calls "god", for example) and the hospital would not actually be run by space monkeys, or even if that were the case, he could just pretend to be Tyler, and then escape. read more »

I was wondering if Chuck himself(or what is your opinion)ever mentioned if Tyler is a schizophrenic hallucination in the original short story or was that an afterthought only (fully)
implemented in the novel?

There are some clues that might point to Tyler being a hallucination but I'm not sure if they are there or I just see them because I 'want' to see them.