Narrator and point of view

The novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is told by an unnamed first person narrator. Most of the novel is a long flashback where the narrator is trying to make sense of the events that are described in the first chapter, where he stands on a rooftop with Tyler Durden, who is holding a gun to him.

Everything is presented through the narrator’s eyes, which means that the narrator shapes the readers’ perception of the people and events presented throughout the story. For example, the narrator’s ...