The penguin as his 'power animal' is symbolic of his life, as a penguin is trapped in the sense that it is unable to fly away from its problems. He sees himself as a penguin and the cave he pictures whilst meditating is cold and made of ice, depicting the isolation and lack of warmth in his life.
You're going deeper into your cave and you're going to find your power animal." It's an adorable penguin, and it tells him, "Slide." Shucks. That's adorable. But when Marla Singer shows up and puts a cramp in his style, suddenly his spirit animal is Marla.
Marla is a threat to the narrator's integrity as a storyteller because her role in the film helps reveal to the audience that Tyler and the narrator are the same person. Whenever Marla is at the house on Paper Street she and Tyler never appear in the same room with the narrator.
While the narrator represents the crisis of capitalism as a crisis of masculinity, Tyler Durden represents "redemption of masculinity repackaged as the promise of violence in the interests of social and political anarchy".
Our narrator calls Marla a "big tourist" (2.96) because he can't cry when she's around in the support groups: "Marla's lie reflects my lie, and all I can see are lies" (2.91). The real problem our narrator has with Marla, though, is that she's so honest in her lie.
It seems that Marla called the house, saying she was going to commit suicide. Our narrator ignored her, but Tyler went to help her. He brought her back to the house and they slept together. "Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains," (7.78) our narrator says when he finds out about their little affair.
In Fight Club, is Marla a real person or another imaginary person like Tyler Durden? Marla is a real person, that's the point. She is attracted to the Tyler aspect of the Narrator, not to the Narrator when he's not being Tyler.
In Fight Club, soap serves as a reminder of the violence and cynicism underlying modern living. Soap, as a product, is often associated with cleanliness and beauty. This fixation on beauty is part of consumer culture, where people will pay $20 for a single bar of soap, thinking, wrongly, that it will make them happy.
The philosophy behind the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher and based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, centres on the idea of letting go. The film follows the unnamed narrator, played by Edward Norton, as he struggles with the emptiness of his consumerist lifestyle and the lack of meaning in his life.
Marla Singer
Marla and our narrator have a love/hate relationship, and by love/hate, we mean that the Tyler side of our narrator loves her, the Jack/narrator side hates her, and poor Marla doesn't know what to think. She tells him over the phone near the end: MARLA: You f*** me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me.
The big twist is that Tyler is actually not real. He's a figment of The Narrator's imagination. When the movie first came out in 1999 this was a shock to audiences. But if you rewatch the film, you will see that director David Fincher hid a bunch of clues throughout the film that actually gave away the ending.
4 Marla's Role and Significance
In the film, she is sort of a femme fatale; the main source of antagonism for both the Narrator and Tyler - the latter of which sees her as a threat to his existence.
He was blonde and described as being "beautiful," hence the name Angel Face. The Narrator developed a jealous hatred for Angel Face after Tyler showed favoritism. The Narrator noted his "inflamed sense of rejection" and delivered a savage beating to Angel Face, causing him to be "less beautiful" from then on.
On the surface, Fight Club's schizophrenia is embodied by the Narrator and Durden, partners in pugilistic therapy and terrorist anarchy who eventually turn out to be conjoined—Durden the imaginary-friend manifestation of all the insurgent beliefs the wimpy Narrator can't express on his own.
The penguin as his 'power animal' is symbolic of his life, as a penguin is trapped in the sense that it is unable to fly away from its problems. He sees himself as a penguin and the cave he pictures whilst meditating is cold and made of ice, depicting the isolation and lack of warmth in his life.
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The reason Fight Club is so easy to misunderstand is that Fincher beautifully sets up both the narrator's depression and Tyler's appeal. The narrator is a victim of capitalism, unable to forge real human connections, so instead he fills his life with stuff.
Tyler Durden
Tyler, throughout Fight Club, attempts to convince the Narrator that he should just be content with himself – stripped away from all his belongings and preconceived notions of success. For the Narrator to let go of his fears, his goals, and his possessions, means that he can just be content with who he is.
The ending to Fight Club includes one of the most memorable twists in cinema – when it is revealed that Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden is in fact nothing more than the imaginary alter ego of the narrator (Edward Norton), and as such, all the acts carried out by Durden were actually his own actions.
After he initiates each new member of Project Mayhem, Tyler Durden kisses the member's hand and then pours lye on it, giving the member a horribly painful, kiss-shaped scar. The scar, “Tyler's kiss,” symbolizes the “painful pleasure” of Tyler's philosophy and his tutelage.
Tyler Durden's business in Fight Club is selling soap made from leftover human fat he steals from liposuction clinics, and besides being a gruesomely clever tidbit, it also serves a thematic purpose in the story.
Director David Fincher revealed that there is a Starbucks cup hidden in every scene of his 1999 masterpiece Fight Club. Fans have tried their hardest to find every one. Eagle-eyed viewers even have their own Tumblr called Fight Club Starbucks.
Throughout the film, he refers to himself several times as Jack (in the screenplay and in the novel it's Joe). He does this as a nod to a series of articles he read that were written about the first person perspective of a body part. Edward Norton himself refers to the character as "Jack" because of this.
The night before, Tyler went over to Marla's hotel after she called and told him that she was dying by suicide. Tyler brought Marla back to the house and they had sex. The Narrator is jealous of their relationship.
The filmmakers considered Courtney Love and Winona Ryder as early candidates. Love claimed that she was cast as Marla Singer, but was fired after she rejected Pitt's pitch for a film about her late husband, Kurt Cobain. The studio wanted to cast Reese Witherspoon, but Fincher felt she was too young.