American Psycho
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April Fools Morning Harry’s Pastels Tunnel Office Health Club Date Dry Cleaners Harry’s (2) Deck Chairs Business Meeting Video Store then D’Agostino’s Facial Date with Evelyn Tuesday Genesis Lunch Concert A Glimpse of a Thursday Afternoon Yale Club Killing Dog Girls Shopping Christmas Party Nell’s Paul Owen Paul Smith Birthday, Brothers Lunch with Bethany Thursday Whitney Houston Dinner with Secretary Detective Summer Girls (2) Confronted by Faggot Killing Child at Zoo Girls (3) Rat Another Night Girl At Another New Restaurant Tries to Cook and Eat Girl Taking an Uzi to the Gym Chase, Manhattan Huey Lewis and the News In Bed with Courtney Smith & Wollensky Something on Television Sandstone The Best City for Business Working Out End of the 1980s Aspen Valentine’s Day Bum on Fifth New Club Taxi Driver At Harry’s
Themes
All Themes Materialism and Consumption Identity and Isolation Monotony and Desensitization Vice and Violence The Truth
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Patrick Bateman Paul Owen Evelyn Richards Courtney Lawrence Jean Luis Carruthers David Van Patten
Symbols
All Symbols The Devil and Hell Business Cards “The Patty Winters Show” Donald Trump Les Misérables
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American Psycho

by

Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho Symbols

The Devil and Hell

The novel both begins and ends with quotes from famous works of literature involving the Devil and Hell. The red graffiti described in the opening line of the novel (“Abandon all hope ye who enter…

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Business Cards

Business cards feature most prominently in the chapter “Pastels.” Bateman, Van Patten, Price, and McDermott are out to dinner and showing off their newest business cards to one another, obsessing over the…

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“The Patty Winters Show”

“The Patty Winters Show” is a fictional daytime talk show not unlike the real-life shows of Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Greg Geraldo, which were very popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s…

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Donald Trump

Long before he became President in 2017, Donald J. Trump was a businessman, author, and celebrity. In American Psycho, he is the person Patrick Bateman idolizes above all others. Bateman talks about him constantly…

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Les Misérables

The musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables opened on Broadway in 1987 and instantly became a smash success. The show was everywhere, with its logo and music being seen and heard around New…

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