Why would Tyler Durden want Jack dead?
The very first scene in Fight Club is Tyler with a gun in Jack's mouth and asking "Any last words?" Based on what we learn about their relationship throughout the movie, this scene doesn't make any sense.
Tyler can't kill Jack because they're the same person, so we wouldn't expect him to be able to follow through. Tyler also consistently supports Jack and pushes him through things, in his own words, he fully intends to drag Jack "kicking and screaming" through this whole affair, not kill him.
Aside from leading up to the best joke in the entire film, I can't see much reason he'd have to put a gun in his mouth.
Best Answer
Tyler does not want the Narrator dead. He needs the Narrator to take the action because Tyler isn't real. Tyler spent the entire film manipulating the Narrator into taking those actions (well, at least when the Narrator is conscious), and knowing that the Narrator, though reckless, does not want to die, has to eventually directly threaten to kill him to get him to do what he wants. Hence, the gun in the mouth.
Of course, this comes at a critical moment when the Narrator realizes he's had the gun all along, and has his "aha!" moment about what it really means to have that gun in his mouth.
The great twist is that, while the Narrator thinks he wants to kill Tyler, he really only kills off the part of him that was keeping himself from fully becoming Tyler.
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What does Tyler symbolize in Fight Club?
While the narrator represents the crisis of capitalism as a crisis of masculinity, Tyler Durden represents "redemption of masculinity repackaged as the promise of violence in the interests of social and political anarchy".What is the moral of the story in Fight Club?
In short, Fight Club is teaching us the lack of stability in perfection. We will have always have something else to strive for, new goals and visions to dream of, and projects to work on. This means that we can hold moments when we do have perfection dearly to our hearts, an empowerment on our part.Is Fight Club about toxic masculinity?
Fight Club is a lot about toxic masculinity, but it doesn't necessarily approve of it: it paints the narrator as an ill man, for whom \u2013 without giving away too much \u2013 things do not end well, and it paints the army of men who follow him as nasty, alienated, cruel.What is the twist at the end of Fight Club?
The ending to Fight Club includes one of the most memorable twists in cinema \u2013 when it is revealed that Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden is in fact nothing more than the imaginary alter ego of the narrator (Edward Norton), and as such, all the acts carried out by Durden were actually his own actions.Fight Club 1999: Jack finds out the truth.
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