Dec 21, 2025
in american psycho, patrick bateman says "this is what being pat rick means to me at the end," including a very deliberate space in his name which calls attention to the blankness of the character and how the hyperreality and hyperconsumerism of modern america is slowly eroding away at people’s identity — performing a violence of erasure analogous to the violence bateman enacts on his victims
in lunar park, a mock memoir where american psycho’s author bret easton ellis is haunted by patrick bateman ellis’s identity has likewise been consumed by his mediated author-persona and his literary characters over the years
thus he totally should’ve said "this is what being br et means to me" too
this is what my english capstone essay is
