Fight Club“The first rule about Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club” (Palahniuk 87). The story of Fight Club was truly compelling; you never knew what would happen next. There were so many things that led to a complete plot twist. It was surprising how directed and precisely written the versions by Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher were. However, the role that stood out to me the most in both was that of Marla. Marla had the greatest influence in discovering the narrator's (or Jack's) identity. Fight Club, in both Palahniuk's and Fincher's versions, is about a man who is bored with everyday life until one day he meets this boy named Tyler. Tyler is unlike anyone he has ever met before and this matters greatly to the narrator/Jack. Tyler ends up changing his entire personality and makes him do things he never thought he would do. Tyler unleashes a sort of wild side and the narrator/Jack likes that side of him. However, towards the end, things start to get out of hand and the narrator/Jack seems unable to stop Tyler; the man who was originally just a simple imaginary friend has taken over the narrator/Jack's life. Finding out that Tyler and the narrator/Jack were the same person is where both versions had a huge twist. The person responsible for bringing the two characters together was Marla and her persistence with Tyler. Both versions were very similar, however the biggest difference between the two versions was the ending. However, both had the same meaning or meaning. Fincher had to end his version the way he did because his entire story was visual. His audience saw Tyler and Jack as two different people. It wasn't until...middle of the paper...the narrator/Jack may never have realized he had an alter ego. He would live his life thinking he had a best friend named Tyler Durden and that they committed random acts of vandalism together. Marla used foreshadowing the most out of all the other characters in both Palahniuk's and Fincher's versions. Foreshadowing is probably the most common element used in both novels and filmmaking. It offers that suspense and allows the audience to connect back to the previous parts once it all makes sense. Marla, even though her roles were small, were the most important. Without his character, even if the narrator/Jack had figured it all out on his own, the story would have been worthless. However, even without Tyler, Fight Club remains. Works Cited Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight club. New York: Henry Holt and Company LLC, 1996.