urist. She goes to the meetings to witness pure human emotionsJack uses these meetings as an emotional outlet to relieve his insomnia, but seeing Marla destroys his therapeutic secret. Marla's presence reminds Jack of the lie he lives in these groups, and she disturbs his temporarily cathartic connection to humanity. In this instance, Marla truly is Jack's "reflection," and he sees the truth of himself and the truth of his deception in her. On a deeper level, Marla represents Jack's gender insecurity, and the death and waste, which Jack subconsciously links to his past. Jack was raised without a strong father figure and as a result, jack grows up out of gender. This distorted gender consciousness ultimately leads to Jack being the insomniatic schizophrenic that he is.
             Where Marla represents Jack's past and insecurities, Tyler represents Jack's future, desire, and his resurrection. Jack's effeminate rearing has left all of his instinctually male characteristics dormant until he thinks that he can finally reach completion with a few more douve's and sofas. The conflict between Jack's feminine facade and his neglected inner masculinity is the cause of Jack's insomnia and the origin of Tyler. This mental unrest becomes so intense that all of Jack's repressed "hunter-gatherer" feelings explode in the personification of Jack's id. Jack can't sleep because of his inner turmoil, so when he thinks he is sleeping, Tyler wakes and fulfills of all Jack's unspoken desires. In this manner, Tyler can be seen as the representation of everything that Jack wants to
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