Fight Club and Generation waiting for the moment when the bombs explode and the building collapses. With the gun pointed at his mouth is Tyler Durden who represents everything the narrator is not. The narrator is a man presumably in his thirties, although it is never stated. He works as coordinator of the recall campaign and lives in a condominium furnished with the latest generation furniture. Tyler Durden is none of these things, Tyler Durden works various jobs and sells soap made from human fat. Tyler Durden lives in a dilapidated house with makeshift furnishings and questionable amenities. Tyler Durden is satisfied with his life, unlike our narrator who suffers from chronic insomnia and often speaks bitterly of corporate life. "Do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't do it." You don't understand any of this, and then you die." (Palahniuk 12) It is lines like these that have helped this novel become popular among the "Generation X" audience. It is because people feel trapped in their work and their material life. We go to work, we do what we are told, we buy the things we are told to buy, but these things rarely give meaning to our lives. Because the novel is aimed at such a wide audience of young people, it has become a important statement about modern culture. Support groups are the only way the narrator is able to sleep. By visiting various support groups for people with terminal illnesses and assuming false identities, he is able to regain a sense of belonging that would otherwise be missing in his. life. "That's why I loved the... medium of paper. .....in their attempt to take down the corporations, they become one person. It is when the narrator discovers that he is, and always has been, Tyler Durden, and that he is responsible for the many evil deeds that the group is responsible for. , who feels guilty and wants it to stop. But this refusal is not taken lightly by the chaos of the project "you know the drill, Mr. Durden. You said it yourself. You said that if anyone tried to shut down the club, even you, then we should have him by the balls." (Palahniuk 187) Likewise, “Generation Xers” remain trapped in the identity of being “Generation Xers.” by trying to rebel through a group identity, they lose themselves once again as they are now part of another group with the same rules that conform to the norm of the society they resist. Works Cited Palahniuk, Chuck New York: W. W. Norton &. Agency, 1996