After reading and evaluating the works of TS Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, there are various points of discussion concerning the connection between tragedy and human conditions. The tragedy here is the result of a specific human condition, disengagement. This essay aims to identify and explain the behavioral traits between the characters in two literary works that lead to the characters' disengagement from a typical social environment. In Palahniuk's Fight Club, Tyler Durden is a societal conformist who experienced a personal tragedy that led him to disengage from societal normalcy and found an organization known as Fight Club, an underground street fighting competition . Tyler was once an aspiring businessman. His failure was the cause of his conformism. Tyler then began working as a security guard, primarily performing after-hours duties. This led him to begin stealing leftover human fat to create the ingredients needed to make explosives in an attempt to supplement his income (Schuessler). Here, personal tragedy, especially failure, has led to a state of behavior called disengagement. Tyler retreated from typical American societal expectations and rebelled through forms of criminality and backlash. Tyler's failure as a businessman and his overall frustration with societal functions in the United States caused him to conform to usual societal norms. Jack Moore, a contrasting character, who suffers from insomnia due to frustration with a standardized and simple lifestyle. Jack and Tyler end up distancing themselves from society in different ways, each of which has unique and contrasting impacts on their lives. Jack and Tyler engage middle of paper......I experienced a human condition as a result of their respective tragedies. Each individual has diverted their emotions to various elements in their efforts to conform to societal demands. Due to fear, lack of trust, and societal suppression, each individual has reacted to their personal societal challenges through the human condition of disengagement from their respective societies. Works CitedElliot, Thomas Stearns. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock and other observations. 1917.Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight club. New York: WW Norton & Co., 1996. Pioch, Nicolas. The Webmuseum. October 25, 2005. May 17, 2011. Poetics. March 16, 2011. April 2011. Schuessler, Zachary. A psychological analysis of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. May 3 2007.