Fight Club Masculinity Analysis

The controversy with masculinity in Fight Club is evident relatively quickly. The narrator attends multiple support group meetings in order to help him with his insomnia. Out of all these support groups, one group for testicular cancer named “Remaining Men Together”. When attending this particular support group, the narrator meets one of his later good friends named Bob. The narrator then stands there and listens to Bob as he emits his wretchedness upon the narrator about the unfortunate events that has happened in life. Bob then says “It will be alright, you cry now” (Page 16). It is here where the narrator cries. The masculinity of these men in the group is questionable because all the men in this group are crying, weak, and helpless which
can be taken as a symbol of how men are in our society today. Today, we would rather sit around a room in a circle, crying to other weaklings rather than doing anything about our problems.