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“In an adrenaline rush causing panting, I can only get a This utterly confuses Bateman. It can be seen one
few blocks, partly because of panic, mostly because of of two ways. Either Bateman’s lawyer confused
the blood, brains, chunks of head covering the somebody else for Paul Owens (much like Bateman
windshield... gets confused for different men multiple times)
The cab rolling over fruit stands, smashing through a since they’re all so mind-numbingly identical. On
wall of glass, the body of a cashier thudding across the the contrary, the lawyer could have actually been
hood, Patrick tries to put the cab in reverse, but right in that Paul Owens was still, in fact, alive and
nothing happens…” all that Patrick Bateman had done- the gruesome
murders, the blood, the shootings- was in his own
head. The book ends as Bateman’s life goes back to
the normal droning monotony it always was.
This implies that while parts of his description Patrick Bateman doesn’t think of himself as a
of the events are accurate, other parts may as human being- he thinks of himself as an illusion.
well just be his imagination. The next day he It’s up to the reader to figure out whether
runs into his lawyer, expecting to talk to him everything that was described was simply a
about the confession he made. But his lawyer hallucination, or if high society was so shallow that
confuses Bateman for someone else (again), Bateman’s doings eventually faded into nothing.
and pats him on the back for coming up with And he leaves us with the conclusion that this is
such an elaborate joke. When Bateman what Patrick Bateman is.
pressures the lawyer into telling him why the
confession was assumed to be a joke, the lawyer
tells him it’s impossible that Paul Owens was -Anushka Sharma
dead because he’d just seen him the previous
week in London.
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