Fight Club

Narrator held at gunpoint by Tyler. Building about to explode. How did we get here? Depressed insomniac corporate slave.

Tyler: "It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything." Rejection of consumerism stated.

Narrator attends support groups for diseases he does not have. Obsessed with Ikea catalog. Empty life seeking meaning.

Meets Tyler Durden on plane. Apartment explodes. Everything narrator owned destroyed. Old life gone.

Should narrator move in with Tyler? Accept this strange charismatic man new philosophy? First fight outside bar.

Moves in with Tyler. They start Fight Club. Entering world of violence, freedom, and brotherhood. Liberation begins.

Marla Singer complicates things. Represents reality and emotional connection Tyler rejects. Love interest and mirror.

Fight Club spreads. Project Mayhem begins. Acts of vandalism. Brotherhood growing. Promise of premise - organized chaos.

Project Mayhem takes over. Tyler becomes leader of movement. False victory - but narrator losing control. Stakes raised.

Bob killed in Project Mayhem operation. Narrator tries to stop Tyler, cannot find him. Movement too big now.

Narrator discovers he IS Tyler Durden. Split personality revealed. Everything he thought was Tyler was him. Identity crisis.

Narrator tries to stop Project Mayhem alone. Realizes he created unstoppable force. Monster of his own making.

Narrator accepts truth, tries to disarm bombs. Tyler fights back. Integration of personality or destruction.

Narrator shoots himself to kill Tyler. Survives. Tyler gone. Synthesis - accepting both sides, rejecting destruction.

Holding Marla hand, watching buildings explode. Found connection, rejected total nihilism. Changed but not destroyed.