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The nameless character of Fight Club

After watching Fight Club, I would consider the nameless character an  outsider and antihero.  He suffers from insomnia and commits crimes while sleeping. He thinks he is a good guy and his friend Durden is the bad guy. However, he is Tyler Durden. At the beginning of the film, it shows his condo being burned down. I’m starting to think he never had a condo in the first place. He probably had always lived in that abandoned looking house.
The nameless character is an outsider, because he doesn’t want to commit crimes with the fight club. He just wants to battle and that’s it. He tries to stop Tyler from committing crimes. I think it’s funny how he thought Tyler was having sex with Mallory, but it was actually him. In the scene where they are in front of the kitchen’s sink, he didn’t look turned on when Mallory grabbed his penis. He actually had a whole lot of sex with her and didn’t realize it. He is an anti-hero, because he saves Mallory from Tyler. They felt like she was a threat and knew too much, so they wanted to knock her off.
Tyler is an outlaw, because he is the leader of the fight club. The members start off just having battles in the basement of a building. It transforms from an underground night club into a violent revolution. He claimed he burned down buildings to help people. Like when he says he is going to burn down the credit card buildings to erase people debt. I don’t think he really cared about anyone.