American Psycho Literary Devices

Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer, Ellis made is breakthrough at the early age of 21 and has made several novels ever since but is most known for his novel “The American Psycho”. This story is revolved around a young stockbroker who is a a average man by day with friends and a fiancée who attends dinner events and party but by night he takes joy in taking the lives of other human in New York and engaging in sexual activates with multiple women. In the American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis uses Literary devices such as foreshadowing and allusions all while leaving readers with the theme that thing are not always what they seem. Ellis continuously gives readers clues throughout the first half of the story as to what Patrick Bateman does by night. As well as giving us readers clues, Bateman constantly admits that he kills people and that he would even kill his friends if they pushed him to his breaking point but due to his social class and their naive manner they overlook it because they believe he is joking. This idea of him being over
When looking back on the story we realize that the closest thing we get to a clue of this is when Evelyn mentions the redundancy of him working on wall street when he is already a wealthy man since his father is already an established man, Bateman soon shuts her up by saying wants to “fit in” (Ellis