Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands."
Tyler Durden is a figment of the narrator's imagination, therefore he is everything that the narrator himself wishes to be. Tyler has all of the traits and strength that he wishes he had, and yearns for the confidence that he has in himself and what he does. Why does the narrator have to create an alter-ego in order to fulfill his dreams rather than to live them out as himself?
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The Narrator doesn't have the self-confidence to consider himself of Tyler's level. Therefore to experience a life like Tyler's he has to live vicariously through him. The Narrators own self-deprecating nature prohibits him from evolving and living up to his potential.
The reason for this alter-ego is exactly that, to have everything that he wishes he had; good looks, self confidence, strength, and the awareness of the world around him that he himself was lacking. By creating this alter-ego he immediately breaks all the barriers that he had before, the social and economic restrictions mean nothing to Tyler, and by creating Tyler he had essentially broken through everything that was ever holding him back.
The narrator never truly takes hold of his life. He simply goes along with what he is told. Another worker ant among millions. In the ened of the novel the narrator wakes up in a mental hospital, its workers members of project mayhem. The workers stand waiting for Tyler Durden, not the narrator. The narrator's inability to control his own life leads to an inevitable destruction of character. In the ees of society, there is no narrator, there is only Tyler Durden.
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