While reading Fight Club, I started to feel as if I had a clue what it would be like to be inside of a crazy person's head. The way the book was written somewhat reminds me of the way The Catcher in the Rye, was written. Lots and lots of meaningful yet confused rambling. Once I got towards the end however I realized that the narrator or main character in the book is schizophrenic and that explains a lot. It explained why Tyler could never be around when Marla was around and it also explained why Tyler always worked night shifts and he always worked day. He was an insomniac who was driving himself even more nuts by believing he would be sleeping when in fact he was actually Tyler, running around pissing in soup at the hotel he worked at and splicing pictures of penises into children's films. He created this alter ego best friend for himself because he was lonely and miserable in his own life. Tyler was somewhat of an outlet for him, Tyler fulfilled "the lack" in his life. He was brave, impulsive, hard, masculine and didn't give a crap very much the opposite of himself. The whole book has a sort of gloomy overtone to it, always hanging around in dim-lit basements, not only to knock the crap out of people or be beaten to a pulp himself but to attend those creepy support groups in which he hadn't had any of the illnesses. At first I thought he was a hypochondriac but once Marla came into the picture and they started to argue over who got to attend what support group it became more clear that they were both just miserable with their own lives and twisted to the point that they somewhat self-fulfilled by being around dieing or very ill people. There is a lot of reference to gender in the book, the first prime and completely graphic example in the book for me was when he said Tyler would, "splice this frame of a linging red penis or a yawning wet vagina..." it sounded as if the mans parts were strong and forthwright while he made the female genitalia sound lazy and boring. Oh and there were some more example in between but in the haiku on page 63 it says, "Worker bees can leave Even drones can fly away but the queen is their slave" that sort of was contradictory because although she is the queen bee she is the only one who can never leave the nest. I thought he wrote this because he felt that although women may have some power over men they are still incapable of creating a life for themselves if the competent and capable male drones or the common worker bee leave.