Thats what I mean though. That's why I consider him to be a real 'character' not just a figment. .
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Who Are Your Favourite Anti-Heroes/Heroines?
- Thread starter Laurence
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Mystagogue
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Dark Lord
I'm glad you mentioned Raistlin Majere. It's been so long, I'd forgotten about him. He was a favorite of mine at the time.
Maybe, when even when Durden transforms into the antagonist, the narrator is hardly a 'good guy'.
Miskatonic
Dark Lord
Yeah he pretends he has cancer so he can get some form of socialization in.
Miskatonic
Dark Lord
You could always consider him an accomplice of Tyler's (before he realizes what Tyler is). So in that way he's sharing some of the credit for the things that are going on. He's trying to shrug off the yuppie life by embracing violence and other types of destructive behavior, and he thinks he's setting an example that will help free other men of the same condition he was in at the beginning of the story. In that way he's an anti-hero.
Exactly. They both are. Even without Tyler he has some questionable morals (pretending he has cancer so he can get sympathy and emotional support from true victims).
I'm not sure I agree. The narrator is a sort of hero at the end… He tries to stop the bombings and he does destroy Tyler… so in those ways he is the hero. However, I don't see him settling down with Marla in suburbia and turning around into a traditional 'good guy'. I think he will always have an edge to him that relishes anarchy. It this way I think that the character as a whole, both the Tyler side and the Narrator side are anti-heroes.