While sitting at my computer I began to think about a film I watched over the weekend called "Fight Club". I am able to connect the movie with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper". The main characters in both stories become mentally disturbed due to their isolation. Jack, the troubled main character in the Fight Club, is a lonesome, white-collar worker. His job has himconstantly traveling. While in the air, on his way tovarious locations, he speaks of singularity. He talksabout single servings of cream and sugar as well assingle serving dinners. He states that everything inhis life is singular. This not only exemplifies hisloneliness but also foreshadows the conclusion that Jack and Tyler Durden are one in the same, a singular unit. Fight Club takes us through the journey of a man, transformed from an unhappy, introvert into a power hungry, mentally insane person. Jack’s transformation is similar to that of the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”becomes depressed after giving birth. Her doctor, withthe support of her husband, decide that she shouldabandon her intellect and society. The reader witnesses how this solitude causes her to descend into madness. There are many surface differences between the twocharacters; different periods of time, different causesfor their seclusion, different sexes, and so on. Buttheir isolation and loneliness leads both of them to the same state, insanity....
