Chuck Pakahniuk's Fight Club

Chuck Pakahniuk is the author of a novel by the name of Fight Club. Fight Club was published in August of 1996 and has been adapted into a major motion picture by Twentieth Century Fox. Fight club follows the story of an unnamed narrator and Tyler durden as they control an underground fighting ring that quickly grows out of control. The story begins at the end with Tyler Durden shoving the barrel of a gun down the back of the narrators throat. The rest of the story is the narrators explanation of how he got into this situation, told from his perspective, begining with his ventures into terminal illness support groups. Unhappy with his life and suffering from insomnia caused by constant jet lag, our narrator begins attending support groups for people suffering from testicular cancer and brain parasites even though he's physically healthy, upon reccomendation from his doctor. The story really begins when

These characters are not good people, by any stretch of the imagination. Tyler Durden is essentially a serial anarchist, Marla Singer is a drug addicted, depressed woman with a bitter and cynical view of the world, and our narrator is caught between the two of them. There is much conflict to be found between this colorful cast, the first of wich being between the narrator and Marla Singer when she begins attending our narrators testicular cancer survivors support group, despite her lack of testicles. Even though he is an imposter himself, our narrator can't get sleep because the faker named Marla Singer is not attending all of his support groups. They eventually come to an agreement to attend different support groups on different days. The second main conflict between characters is between the narrator and Tyler Durden when Tyler begins a romantic relationship with Marla. The narrator feels as if Marla has come between the two and he develops jeleous tendencies towards