Fight Club is basically about men who are employed to serve others, men who hold jobs such as waiters, men who feel that they have lost a certain degree of their masculinity, who come together and unite by forming Fight Club (www.critism.com/md/fightclub). This club is a place where they can fig

Finally, one extremely important symbol of masculinity is infact Tyler Durden. This is a character created by Jack, although Jack is not aware of this for the majority of the movie. The “real” Tyler Durden is Jack. Towards the end of the movie the viewer finally discovers that Tyler is not a real human and just another side to Jack, a twist similar to the twist at the end of “The Sixth Sense” however “Fight Club is dealing with insanity and split personality, much like lead actor Edward Norton’s earlier film “Primal Fear” (www.ironminds.com). Tyler is the ideal “real” man, he is a very testosterone driven male (www.ksu.edu/socialist/fightclub.html) He is everything Jack wishes to be, Tyler is strong, fearless, brave, dangerous and a sex symbol. Tyler is a leader, and is extremely well respected. We see just how fearless and brave he is in the scene where Lou, the owner of the bar that’s above the basement where Fight Club is being held, comes down, armed with a gun to confront Tyler for using the basement without permission. Tyler takes a beating from Lou until he is covered in his own blood, however he does not back down as a result of the pain, instead he mocks Lou by laughing then attacks Lou. This is extremely brave of Tyler, as it would be assumed that Lou would hold all the power, as he is the character holding the loaded weapon.

The other female character, Chloe, is also a tragic character with a pitiful life. Having been told she only has a short time to live she confesses her last wish to have sex with a man before she dies, at one of her support groups (www.garnetsigma.com/fightclub/chole.html). This can imply that without any form of masculinity one could just fade away and die. However this last wish can be looked at the opposite way, where Chloe is a female looking to use a man for sex, giving her the power and making men seem rather helpless, making Chloe seem rather vicious in a way despite the fact she is clearly a victim.

Similarly, Robert Paulson, or Bob is just one of the male characters in the movie that represents femininity (www.literaryhistory.com/fight_club.htm). Another cancer victim, this time testicular, who as a result of his hormone therapy, has grown breasts. Due to this he has been abandoned by his wife and family leaving him an extremely lonely character that the viewer will feel a great deal of sympathy for. This character with his, as Jack refers to, “bitch tits” is the director taking his points and theme to the extremes, as Bob bares no other female qualities besides his breasts. Robert, being the most similar to the female sex ends up dead. This was in a way inevitable for the viewers to predict as there has been a distinct pattern throughout the movie where the female characters h

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