Tyler is everything The Narrator wants to be: charismatic, confident, physically capable, and free from societal constraints. Tyler has a name—a strong, memorable name. The Narrator does not.
In the opening act, The Narrator is defined entirely by his possessions. He covets the "Johan superior chair" and the "Hovetrekke home furnishing." He is a nameless cog in the corporate machine, a worker bee for a major car manufacturer (a job he describes as "a major deterrent to my peace of mind"). narrator name fight club