Fight Club Character Analysis

WARNING SPOILER ALERT. The Narrator in “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk lives a single serving life filled with insomnia causing him to have multiple issues with his identity. He is a man having a mid-life crises as life became reparative and the need to search for excitement, danger, and something different becomes apparent. Whether it is feeling other people’s pain in a support groups as a way to find his released from the boring life or creating Tyler as the perfect vision of himself, his personality dramatically evolves. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) can be linked to the changes happening as it forms the “two faces” the narrator wears in the story. Insomnia is what drove the Narrator towards the support groups to find what he needed
He starts learning about the way Tyler thinks and begins to admire him for how much “truth” and “Wisdom” he spouts out. Without Tyler then there wouldn’t be a fight club and without fight club then the Narrator wouldn’t have stated:
I felt finally I could get my hands on everything in the world that didn’t work, my cleaning that came back with the collar buttons broken, the bank that says I’m hundreds of dollars overdrawn. My job where my boss got on my computer and fiddled with my DOS execute commands. And Marla Singer, who stole support groups from me.
The narrator was becoming overwhelmed with how big Tyler was trying to go with his new project, also realizing that he was becoming less needed by him, he was dumped. In his search for Tyler he had a chance to make a wish and it was “My wish right now is for me to die. I am nothing in the world compared to Tyler” (Palahniuk146). He thought why live when Tyler is what the world needed, not him. Himself becoming less and less while Tyler becomes bigger and bigger. Around the time the Narrator figures out that Tyler was really the alter personality he had created as he