John Hanson 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"?

John Hanson Patrick Bateman is a painfully unreliable narrator and much of what he says, thinks or does must be taken with a pinch of salt. We only see through hi…morePatrick Bateman is a painfully unreliable narrator and much of what he says, thinks or does must be taken with a pinch of salt. We only see through his eyes and he is shown to be wrong a number of times. (less)

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