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I personally enjoyed the ending of Fight Club more than that of the film. I thought that Chapter 30 was a beautiful juxtaposition between heaven and an institution. The narrator never comes out and states that he is in an institution but rather commpares everything to that of idealistic features of heaven. The Psychiatrist is God, the nurses as angels, everything is white and quiet. I liked how even in the institutions there are still remenants of fight club, because what was put into motion can not be stopped. There is an ambiguity to the state of the narrator. We do not know if Tyler has survived or is gone for good. We are not sure if the narrator will return to fight club if he ever leaves the institution. I felt that this was a postmodern type of ending because it is really not an ‘ending’ because there is no real resolution. Everything is still up for interpretation and there is no real ‘end’ in sight. We aren’t sure what will happen to civilization because according to the whispers, “We’re going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world.”(208)