Elizabeth Ann answers “can someone tell me why he did not get...”

erjan avid reader asked this question about American Psycho:

can someone tell me why he did not get caught? and what happened when he comes to Paul Allen's house and discovers it is sold? the woman selling the flat tells him to go away and never come back. Who helped Bateman out? Who covered his murders and how? Why his lawyer in the end tells him "i had dinner with Paul Allen in London 10 days ago"?

Elizabeth Ann The whole point of that scene was to force both Bateman and the reader to question whether or not those brutalities actually took place. It makes the …moreThe whole point of that scene was to force both Bateman and the reader to question whether or not those brutalities actually took place. It makes the us wonder if they were just the fantasies and hallucinations of a psychotic person.(less)

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Haroon Part of me thinks it really did happen and being privileged he could get away with it....also the 'yuppies' absorbed by the material culture all start ...more
Aug 14, 2017 01:04PM

Key Key in my idea it was the point that shows that in this socity profiting from a good house and a running business is more important that everything and th ...more
Oct 20, 2020 02:34AM

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