Why does Tyler Durden leave the Narrator taking his suitcase?

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In the movie Fight Club, Tyler Durden leaves the Narrator taking his suitcase while the narrator was asleep. My question is not about the car crash, it's about the scene that comes after the car crash, when Tyler Durden leaves the Narrator while he was asleep.

I read the book Fight Club but didn't get the reason why Tyler Durden left the Narrator and later appears in the hotel room to tell the Narrator that he broke his promise of not talking about him to Marla.

I think Tyler left so that he can test the Narrator is trustworthy or not but am not sure about that.



Best Answer

After the crash Tyler takes his suitcase and leaves to set Project Mayhem in motion so it can continue without him.

He leaves sleeping Jack in the room (i.e. takes control of his body), gives specific instructions to everyone in the Paper Street Soap Company building and in other Fight Clubs around the country (hence the suitcase with tickets etc.) so that when he goes back and relinquishes Jack's body, Jack can't do anything to stop it.

That's why later we see Jack walking aimlessly around the house where everyone in was doing their part of Project Mayhem (Jack calls it "controlled chaos" or something like that). Only after Bob's death he decides to follow Tyler's trail and realizes Tyler had given specific instructions all around the country - to deny his existence of the Clubs, to spread false information about Tyler Durden, to cut balls of everyone trying to stop it (even including Tyler himself) etc.

Similarly, later after Tyler shows up in the hotel (and he does that because Jack spoke about Tyler to Marla, against his triple promise) and Jack learns the truth (that they are sharing the same body), Jack again loses his consciousness and wakes up several hours later with a phone in his hand, because Tyler has used his body to make calls to give Project the green light.




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Why does Tyler disappear Fight Club?

At the end of the story, the Narrator appears to kill Tyler by shooting himself through the face. This apparently works because it means the Narrator has finally hit bottom, momentarily becoming fully free and in control. This allows his choice to be rid of Tyler (rather than becoming him) to take full effect.

What happens to the narrator at the end of Fight Club?

In the book, after the narrator shoots himself \u2013 with the intention of killing Durden \u2013 he blacks out and wakes up in a mental hospital, believing that he is now in heaven.

How many times does Tyler Durden flash on the screen?

Flashes of Tyler Tyler Durden (Pitt) appears in "Fight Club" six times before he and Norton's character meet officially meet, flashing on the screen in several moments like here, when the narrator is mindlessly making copies at work.



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