What Is Bateman's Evaluation Of The Prevailing Culture Of Consumerism?

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The entire book is made up of superficiality. At first it seems as if Ellis wrote American Psycho with the intentions of alienating his audience. Through the meticulous list of dishes on the menu at the hottest, new restaurant, or the sartorial items and the dull dialogues on mainstream musical artists such as, Genesis and Whitney Houston. We can see that Ellis is working toward an agenda. It seems safe to presume that indicators, such as Bateman’s consumerist fascinations and his sexism, are shown to help Ellis in instigating a contemptuous evaluation of the prevailing culture of consumerism which exists now just as it did in the late 1980’s as Bret Easton Ellis informs in an interview; “I was writing about a society in which the surface became

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