In the film Fight Club, the one scene that stood out to me the most was the scene where Edward Norton’s character “Jack” is beating the living daylights out of one of the fight club members named Angel Face. As his name suggests, Angel Face he has an angelic, pretty-ness about him. With his bleach blonde hair and a very clean look, Angel Face is not your typical member of the Fight Club, looks-wise. As most of the other members look rugged or look like your average male, Angel Face is a pretty boy. What many people thought was going to be another run-of-the-mill fight, it quickly escalated and essentially, it was Jack simply striking this poor kid's face into the ground; the face that represented beauty and Tyler’s affection.
When Jack said “I wanted to destroy something beautiful”, it speaks volumes to what a normal, masculine man would say because societal norms tell men that they are not suppose to be “beautiful”. They are suppose to" look like a man"; big, tough, and strong.
Angel Face posed as a threat to Jack because he saw how Tyler was being affectionate to him. Jack became jealous because Tyler used to give Jack all the attention and now, he just felt left out. The homoeroticism is, in my opinion, clearly felt in both the scene where Jack is on the sideline looking at Tyler give Angel Face attention and where Jack is beating up Angel Face; the jealously that a man is feeling because another man is not paying attention to him, and fighting half-naked with one man on top of another man.
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