Fight Club - minor characters

Question 1

Marla - explanation

Answer 1

• representation of death, near-death experiences in support groups and trying to overdoes on Xanax
• need for intimacy, admits he likes her and underlying reason for misogyny could be chasing Marla

Question 2

Marla - quotes

Answer 2

• “Funerals are nothing compared to this. Funerals are all abstract ceremony. Here you have a real experience of death.”
• “The last thing I want is Marla moving in, one piece of crap at a time.”
• “From the first night I met her. Tyler, or some part of me needed a way to be with Marla.” (END)

Question 3

Bob - explanation

Answer 3

• represents most extreme emasculation
• represents masculinity throughout history
• warning to people sacrificing rationality to a cause and becoming mindless follower as he is eventually killed

Question 4

Bob - quotes

Answer 4

• “His own gym, Big Bob owned a gym. He’d been married three times. He’d done product endorsements”
• “Fast-forward, Bob said, to the cancer. Then he was bankrupt. He had two grown kids who wouldn’t return his calls.”
• “It was a cordless electric drill that the police thought was a gun when they blew Big Bob away.” (END)

Question 5

Walter - explanation

Answer 5

• represents flawed ideal of a man, superficially attractive
• represents emasculated and submissive man
• result of lack of father figure

Question 6

Walter - quotes

Answer 6

• “Here’s a young guy with perfect teeth and clear skin and the kind of job you bother to write the alumni magazine about getting…
• “…You know he was too young to fight in any wars, and if his parents weren’t divorced, his father was never home”

Question 7

Patrick Madden - explanation

Answer 7

• represents authority and bureaucracy, which the group opposes
• nature of being killed at an elegant event proof of class hatred

Question 8

Patrick Madden - quotes

Answer 8

• “His name was Patrick Madden, and he was the mayor’s special envoy on recycling. His name was Patrick Madden, and he was an enemy of Project Mayhem.”
• “Now I can remember Patrick Madden, dead on the floor, his little figurine of a wife, just a little girl with a chignon. His wife giggled and tried to pour champagne between her dead husband’s lips.” (END)

Question 9

All minor characters

Answer 9

• Marla
• Bob
• Walter
• Patrick Madden