Fight Club is about Jack Moore, a single man with an ordinary job, ordinary apartment, and an ordinary life. Jacks burning question in his life was, "What kind of dining set defines me as a person?". A slave to consumerism, Jack collected furniture as a hobby, and as an obsession. During a 6 month period Jack suffers from insomnia. He tries to receive medical attention, but is told to attend a testicular cancer support group to see what real pain is. This support group, and others like it, give Jack a release from his insomnia. As Jack states, "To lose all hope, is freedom.", and so the support groups become an addiction. This all changes when another "faker" such as himself starts showing up at all his support groups. Marla Singer's injection to his addictions causes Jack's insomnia to return. Soon after, on a business trip, Jack meets Tyler Durden, and ultimately the two of them create Fight Club. Fight Club quickly grows to a gathering of fatherless men who …show more content…
Jack grew up without a father, which statistically these matriarch styles of development have shown an increase in schizophrenics. Also poverty is strongly link to schizophrenia, and single parent, single income families are usually at this level. Another contributing factor could be of Jacks sleep deprivation caused by the insomnia. Insomnia can lead to several psychosis, and schizophrenia is one of them. Jack centered his life around consumerism and once he felt an attraction for Marla, who was a bottom society non-consumer, he suffered a split and created Tyler. Through Tyler he could defend himself against his "painful" feelings for Marla, and act on his baser desires he didn't normally allow himself, such as sex. At the end when he "shoots" Tyler he not only destroyed the disassociation he had been suffering, but united his mind to support the life he decided to live without the help of