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

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Plot Summary

Detailed Summary
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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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