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
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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
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allusions Anthropomorphism Dramatic Irony Genre Hyperbole Idioms Irony Metaphors Mood Personification Satire Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone Unreliable Narrator
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by Bret Easton Ellis
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