In Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, masculinity is a recurring theme present throughout the novel and is directly linked to the creation of Fight Club in the first place. After meeting Tyler Durden , the narrator's masculinity and his outlook on life begin to change radically. As a result of this change, the theme of masculinity becomes very dire throughout the novel very quickly because Palahniuk uses masculinity to explain the many problems that consumer-oriented males can struggle with. In this case, the narrator's masculinity is constantly in question due to his problems with insomnia, consumer-driven lifestyle, and Marla Singer. In our society today, the view of masculinity has changed a lot where almost everyone finds a partner, hugs each other, and then regurgitating their problems like in the support group, is replaced with extreme violence in Fight Club. In Fight Club men resort to violence in an attempt to rejuvenate the senses that have been exhausted by daily life, corporate work and consumer life. Fight Club is where you can go when a man can experience the true feeling of being a man. The narrator says, "You're not alive anywhere like you're alive at Fight Club." (Page 51) the narrator continues to say, “The guys in Fight Club aren't who they are in the real world. Even if you told the guy at the copy center that he had a good fight, you wouldn't be talking to the same man” (Page 49). Fight Club provides a state of euphoria to men because when they are at Fight Club, men are able to escape from the realities of life, their jobs, and their bodies. As said in Signs of Life: American Makeover, “It's almost as if people are tired of being people” (page 615). The narrator lays out his understanding of Fight Club's effect on men by saying that after a fight, "There's hysterical screaming in tongues like in church, and when you wake up on Sunday afternoon, you feel saved" (Page 51). These men who all have some kind of problem in their lives have finally found a way to be at peace and when they are at Fight Club, they never have to worry. Whenever Marla is in the house on Paper Street, she and Tyler never appear in the same room as the narrator. When Marla leaves the house enraged by the narrator's treatment of her, Tyler suddenly reappears only to quickly disappear once again when Marla returns. Marla is in a sense emasculating the narrator because she begins to feel like she has lost her place next to Tyler, who is supposed to have a perfect sense of masculinity. Ironically, Tyler exists in the Narrator's mind as a prime example of what a man should be and is something reminiscent of the way advertising in today's society says a man has a perfect body while wearing Gucci underwear. Without Tyler's attention, the narrator feels a rejection bordering on the romantic