"I am Jack's second chance." This simple statement might have been Ed Norton's last lines in the 1999 film "Fight Club," had the movie not ended in such an ambiguous and unresolved fashion. The movie's end is unresolved because the final scene shows the symbolic resetting of a city, and the symbolic resetting of Jack's, Ed Norton's character's, life. Once Jack's life is reset however, there is no mention of the direction that fate will take him. The film leaves Jack with the important decision of whether or not to dissolve "Project Mayhem", the crowning achievement of a wild colt bent on nihilism and social-economic destruction. Jack's decision at the end of Fight Club is not clear because throughout the movie he is pulled in opposite directions by two supporting characters that act as his self reflections; Tyler and Marla. Tyler wants Jack to continue his position as leader of project mayhem, while Marla wants Jack to return to his senses and disband the colt. Fully understanding the nature of these two "reflections" of Jack's self is imperative to answering the movie's ambiguous ending. This is imperative because Jack's unresolved decision eventually rests on the stronger of Marla and Tyler's persuasions. Throughout the film the complex relationships between Jack, Marla, and Tyler constantly question Jack's loyalty, and it is only through these character interactions that the ambiguous ending can be determined.
             Jack suffers from severe insomnia, due to his overflowing subconscious repressions, and can only go to sleep after purging himself of his latent emotions by crying with cancer patients at various cancer support groups. Marla first appears in the film as a new member at one of the support groups that Jack regularly attends but Marla, like Jack, does not actually have cancer. Marla, like Jack, is a to...