With all of the discussion of the character of Marla in the film Fight Club and the comparisons to her representations in the book, I want to look at some of the other marginal characters in this narrative, namely Bob Paulson (played by Meat Loaf) and also Angel Face (played by Jared Leto). While we see Marla as an under-represented, undeveloped female character in the film, her presence is an essential part of the schizophrenic world that Jack\/Tyler Durden lives in. She moves in and out of the scenes, in a way a filmic parallel to the movement of the narrative and she is also the first character we look to when searching for clues that betray the \u201csurprise\u201d twist. Just as she is a complicated character that we never get to really know, so are Bob and Angel Face. I guess that the root of my thinking is what these characters, particularly the two emasculated and feminized men represent or symbolize or how they work in the story. Bob\u2019s testicular cancer has given him a body that is not his own, and yet, through the Fight Club, more so than at the meetings, Bob regains his masculine identity in violence. How would this work for Angel Face, who because of a perceived \u201cbeauty\u201d is the object of jealousy, especially for Jack? This jealousy is so strong, in fact, that Jack seeks to destroy it by beating him to a pulp. His face through the rest of the film has become a form that is not his own, a bloody, broken mess. There are some elemental homoerotic underpinnings in the introduction of Angel Face as a character, in light of his interaction with Tyler, and yet, the hate and need to destroy that Jack feels may be driven by a more deluded jealousy, particularly since the attention of which he is jealous, the attention given to Angel Face, is his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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