Marla?

that's a theory that a lot of people go by.

nah, i think she's real. i see her as a combination of the Narrator and Tyler's personalities, only you know, with a vagina.

whateva.

may be that whole thing about her picking up phones with no one on the other end.

just a guess...

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ZTH [/i]
[B]you could see both ways... I mean, you can also say that the whole Project Mayhem thing is fake, that he makes up everything you read... but the beauty of it, is that it also could be real in the same time [/B][/QUOTE]

That's a bit of an exageration, he obviously didn't imagine Project Mayhem or Fight Club. It is open to interpretation whether Marla is real or not.

maybe he created her, to proof himself he is tyler...

My two cents: I think Marla is definitely real. I think creating one alter- ego is enough to deal with, let alone adding a crazy woman into the mix. Just my opinion.

-Anesthetized

Marla being fake is a wrench in the whole dynamic of jack/tyler. Jack is the weak part of.. well, jack. Tyler is at the strong end . so if marlas fake, where does that put her? maybe jack is a blend of marla and tyler and hes in the middle and marla is the weak part of.. somone. or maybe jack's like marla's tyler durden, like the strong part of 'her'. Or maybe tyler had a sex change and Marla's the way tyler would be if he were still a women. or maybe.. *groan* Oh god! *passes out*.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Schism [/i]
[B]BTW she was not a whore, whores get paid. [/B][/QUOTE]

HAH!!

i was kinda thinking marla wouldnt be the kind of girl that jack would "date/fuck/mess around with/ just like tyler isnt the kind of person jack is.jack only wishes he would be like tyler and maybe just maybe wishes he would fuck the kind of girl marla is . this is a little confusins but im starting to think that marla is fake as well. but i dunno somebody correct me please

If Marla is not real that basically leaves the door open for EVERY key event in the movie to be totally imagined. The beauty of Tyler is that he didn't exist, yet when the narrator thought he did, he started to actually change his environment, his life, and, ultimately, the world.

If Marla is not real, that means the narrator imagined following her into a thrift store, otherwise the clerk would have stood there and watched the narrator have a conversation with himself. Tyler would have gone to an apartment the doesn't actually belong to anyone to save an imaginary woman from dying from an imaginary overdose that, incidentally, imaginary EMTs would have been trying to prevent.

The whole point of Tyler being imaginary was that the narrator created him to free himself. Once he was created, actual change occurred. If anything else besides Tyler existed only in the narrator's head, that takes away the merit of his fractured mind and basically just stick him in the catagory of "complete fucking nutter"

Course...I could just be full of shit.

To further this, the narrator says:

"This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Without Marla, Tyler would have nothing."

It's extremly difficult to own somthing that doesn't exist, which is the same reason no own really owns property, because government it imaginiary, therefor law is imaginary as well as the boundries of property

Not to get to deeply engrossed in philisophy, but Marla drives Tyler because she is real.

shes real cuz other ppl see her like the space monkeys and the girl that she sells her jeans to...but its a good guestion to think about ....

I can understand thinking Marla isn't real, I thought that too after watching the movie. Once I read the book, it seemed pretty obvious though, that she is real. Like, the parts about her mother and everything.

I think she's real. Once you start making up theories about Narrator's wrecked brains, you might as well start saying that Bob and Angel Face aren't real. Who else? The mechanic? Raymond? What would Walter represent, I wonder? Nah, Marla's real to me, as is the rest.

I think marla is real, although, selling jeans to the women is no proof. To jack tyler was registered by other people as being there. I think that only Tyler was imagined by Jack(or vice versa). There is the possibility that he does imagine other people but i think that tyler is the person that he refers all of his desires, and how he expresses his self-hate. as to the idea of angel face bing real, LOL :p. What i found odd was how tyler had the time to set up all these other fight clubs without jack noticing or barely waking as it would take alot of time to get to these places, etc.
What do u reckon?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by IamYourFailure [/i]
[B]So I just got finished reading the book, thinking that I'd understood the jist of things. (Excellent book, by the way.) Then my friend asked what I thought of Marla's role; he claimed without hesitation that she is another one of Joe/Tyler's multiple personalities. Is he missing something or am I? [/B][/QUOTE]
I think that Marla was the reason for occuring of Tyler Derden in life of Jack. She shown him the life he wanted in real, she pushed Tyler from undermind of Jack. Simply a girl, love and so on.

I believe that Marla is a real person, I think that everyone is thinking way to into this. Palahniuk I think had this great thought down, he had this amazing ending and he just started writing knowing how it was going to end, knowing that his main character was going to have an alter ego, adding in a woman in the mix that got in the way of everything was only his way of building the plot to explode at the end with an amazing twist. 

All in all Marla is deff a real person, I think Palahniuk didn't think about this, he only had one thing in mind and that was the ending that he knew was going to jump start his career!

Yeah I agree. Everything seems just as real as it could be fake. I don't know if there is a leaning proof on either side.