Fight Club Narrator Analysis
Our guide is a nameless Narrator, played with exquisite subtlety by Edward Norton, a desperate insomniac who is told, that instead of medication he should go see a support group for men with testicular cancer "to see what real suffering is like." The Narrator goes to the group, surprisingly finding that crying in the embrace of men with "bitch tits” actually helps him sleep. ... For the Narrator to hit him, and have the two proceed to beat each other to a bloody pulp. This ritual soon evolves into a weekly club, (aka Fight Club), in which other men in the Narrator’s’ situation find their release by fighting strangers in the basement underneath a sordid bar. The Narrator most indefinitely suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. ... But this is not completely true for the Narrator’s situation.