American Psycho

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It is perfectly acceptable to bitch and moan about how the mean people didn’t like your good tweets, but there is a time and a place for such behavior, and it is not the offices of Alfred A. Luis Carruthers – a closeted homosexual co-worker who is attracted to Bateman, something that disgusts the latter. It was here that we first heard of "the unreliable narrator", a personage now familiar from any number of book reviews or broadcast literary discussions. He thinks Tyler Clementi, the gay college student who jumped off a bridge after his roommate secretly taped him making out, got too worked up over a “harmless freshman dorm-room prank.On the other hand, is the inner self of Patrick Bateman, the aboriginal-self, who copes and relinquishes his outer complications and "fake" identity, created by consumerism, through violence on other human beings, who he finds consumable, and expresses absolute control of his desires and true self through his violent fantasies. As a satire on the bankrupt, money-driven world of the 1980s, American Psycho is a successful, if rather heavy-handed piece of fiction, whose controversy seems only set to increase. When Bateman tells a model he’s interested in “murders and executions,” she hears “mergers and acquisitions. His books echo one another, with Ellis often using recurring characters and settings which often make ‘cameo’ appearances, and his comments on society and the arts have led him to become one of the most controversial figures in modern culture. To Ellis, who describes himself as an “outsider” and a “freak” since childhood, Bateman’s social criticism sounded “almost entirely correct.

Despite critics arguing over the aesthetic properties of the novel from rapid patterns and transitions of self-consciousness and murder, Serpell claims critics have overlooked the key themes and motives of the novel. One of the great puzzles at the heart of American Psycho is that Bateman frequently shares his murder fantasies with people around him. His consumer, artificial self, proceeding in society as a wealthy consumer would live and spend his income, versus his natural self, who, instead of spending money, would hunt and prey on the weak and vulnerable, usually women, whom he deems expendable. I was slipping into a consumerist kind of void that was supposed to give me confidence and make me feel good about myself but just made me feel worse and worse and worse about myself. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare .The Los Angeles Times 's review [16]—"the one good review in the national press", he said—resulted in "a three-page letter section of all these people canceling their subscriptions".

Or maybe yeah, Bret Easton Ellis could be a raging misogynist, but that's really not the point I took from the book. These narrators give wrong-headed accounts of events, but it is unusual for an unreliable narrator actually to lie to us.

Bateman's character and traits, according to Heise, challenge what readers understand as the social norms for the way the elite upper class think and react to society on a normal basis.