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{{quote|"''There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there's no real me, only an entity, something illusory.''"|'''Patrick Bateman'''}}

 

 

Patrick Bateman is a yuppie's yuppie. He works on Wall Street, has a pretty girlfriend, and spends most of his life in restaurants. However, he is also an insane serial killer who often hallucinates and murders people for no reason at all. In increasingly horrific ways. Most of the people in Pat's life don't really know anything about him, but then, he doesn't know anything about them either. Most of the people he knows cannot even be bothered to remember his name—but he isn't sure about theirs, so it all evens out. There is no one who listens to him; he confesses at least once a week, but no one seems to notice—or care. And Ellis [[Word of God|explains]] that Patrick may not ''really'' be a serial killer. Patrick may just be harmlessly insane. Or bored. But Patrick may also be speaking the absolute truth. [[Applicability|It's up to the reader to decide]].

A movie sequel [[In Name Only]] to '''''American Psycho''''' is described at the bottom of this page.

 

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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Both novel and film allow for the possibility that all the murders only took place inside Bateman's head.

* [[Hookers and Blow]]: Part of Patrick's exceptionally decadent lifestyle.

* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]]: When a private investigator asks Patrick about Paul Owen, Patrick thinks to himself: "How could I describe Paul Owen to this guy? Boasting, arrogant, cheerful dickhead who constantly weaseled his way out of checks at Nell's? That I'm heir to the unfortunate information that his penis had a name and that name was ''Michael''?"

** Patrick uses other, more outlandish excuses too; for example, he once tells to Courtney that "I'm going to... Noj's. I'm buying coke from Noj". She protests that Noj is not a drug dealer but the chef at the Deck Chairs.

** Don't forget his important meeting with [[The Cosby Show|Cliff Huxtable]].

 

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