Chapters 1-5 confusing, but I'll explain

The big question in chapter one is: why does the narrator talk about Tyler Durden, but then he does not talk about him again until chapter seven or eight? Also I believe that he might be homosexual because there is a big love triangle between him, Tyler and Marla. He wants Tyler, Tyler wants Marla and Marla wants him. Homosexuals have a big problem in todays' society and are looked down upon, so I wonder if people throughout this book will perceive him in a negative light. I hope not because I will feel terrible for him because in personal experience I have many gay friends.

Chapter two was interesting because I discovered that the narrator goes to all these support groups and the other character Marla goes to all of them as well. The way she perceives him is accurate because she knows that he is a faker and a liar, but no other character sees that as of yet. He goes to all these other support groups to see how much worse other peoples lives are than his because he only has insomnia. I think he is a scumbag and that is how I perceive him at this moment.

Chapter three and the narrator finally talks about what Tyler does for his jobs and how he met Tyler. The homosexual question comes back because he meets Tyler at a nude beach and stares at him and what he was making on the beach. What guy on a nude beach would stare at another guy unless he was gay? Apparently Tyler is not gay because he only asks the narrator for the time at the beach, but his occupations are a projectionist and a waiter. There is no perception about Tyler at all until the next few chapters.

Chapters four and five are messed up because the narrator meets Marla at the support groups again and now all he can see is that she perceives him as a faker and liar once again. She is there because no one she knows has died yet so the meaning of life is nothing because she has not experienced anything like death to compare it to. Talk about messed up in the head, I can only imagine what she must think of others and what others must think about her. Also the narrators condo burns to pieces and I feel sympathetic towards him because when I was six my house burnt down so I know how it feels and I am on his side at this point, but that does not mean that my mind will not change later on in the book.