Tyler initiates a cult-like organisation known as Project Mayhem in order to aggressively promote his anti-consumerist ideals, but the Narrator becomes increasingly uneasy with the group as its activities become more destructive. After Marla calls their residence, threatening suicide, she and Tyler begin an affair that confounds the Narrator. The duo establish a weekly meeting known as 'fight club', in which they and other men can engage in bare-knuckle fistfights. The Narrator meets a man named Tyler Durden while alone on a nude beach, and begins living with him after his condominium explodes due to unknown causes. When an impostor named Marla Singer begins to appear at the groups, his euphoria is broken and his insomnia returns. This induces catharsis within him, enabling him to sleep. Suffering from insomnia and depression, he begins visiting support groups for people with illnesses that he is not afflicted with himself. In the 1996 novel, the Narrator is depicted as an average middle-class man employed at an unnamed automobile company, wherein he inspects car accidents to determine if an automobile model should be recalled. This story later became chapter six of the novel Fight Club, which Palahniuk published in 1996. The Narrator first appeared in a seven-page short story in the 1995 compilation Pursuit of Happiness. Appearances Novels Pursuit of Happiness (1995)

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