His parents divorced sometime earlier, while his mother became sick and now resides at a sanatorium. His father, who first appeared in Ellis's preceding novel The Rules of Attraction, grew up on an estate in Connecticut, and now owns an apartment in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan.
He works for a company called Pierce and Peirce, a major financial firm owned by his father. He talks about how hate his job but when asked why he does not just quit, he says he just wants to fit in with other people.
This, combined with sex, violence, drugs, and other desires of the id, is how Bateman enacts his sociopathic violence in a superficial world. Bateman's episodes of schizophrenia also shows clear signs on how he copes with being an affluent person living in a superficial world, fashioned on consumerism.
Patrick Bateman is the protagonist in the film "American Psycho", and he suffers from three personality disorders, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder.
At Bateman's apartment Patrick is about to kill Jean but he stops himself. Jean asks if Bateman want her to leave, he says yes because he can't control himself and might hurt Jean. After Bateman's murder spree of Elizabeth, "Christie", and some townsfolks, Jean looks around his office and finds his journal.
She values objects and money over real, intimate love and connection. Eventually, Bateman dumps her (after tricking her into eating a chocolate-covered, used urinal cake).
The only person in his life he has anything approaching feelings for is his secretary, Jean, who he knows is in love with him and who he passively accepts that he will probably marry one day. Even then, however, it is made clear that he sees her not as a person, but more as a beautiful object not to be destroyed.
The latest season finally gives main character Joe Goldberg's condition a name—erotomania. It's a delusional disorder in which someone has an unfounded belief that a person of a perceived higher social status (like a famous musician or actor) is in love with them.
American Psycho 2000 served as a sort of "e-sequel" to the original novel. The e-mails take place in 2000, a little over a decade since the novel. Bateman is in psychotherapy with Dr M. He is also married to Jean, his former secretary.
He admits to taping a lot of his crimes, eating some of his victims' brains, and even trying to cook them. Specifically, he cops to killing Paul Allen (Jared Leto) with an ax to the face, sobbing to Harold that his body is currently dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen.
American Psycho explores the inherent violence of corporate greed, using Patrick Bateman's sadistic acts as a metaphor for the callousness of Wall Street. The film's ambiguous ending signifies Bateman's moral awakening, as he tries to hold himself accountable for his actions while those around him remain indifferent.
His transgressive third novel, 'American Psycho', was the one that truly propelled him into the spotlight. Upon its release, it was widely condemned as being too graphically violent, outright misogynistic and got him labelled as a sadist.
According to the Wiki article, the lawyer "mistakes him for another colleague". This is supposed to drive home the fact that although he is somewhat of a narcissist, he is unimportant to certain people around him.
Christie was a local prostitute, whom Patrick Bateman had taken to his home alongside another sex worker named Sabrina. However, Patrick covers himself up as being Paul Allen. At the apartment, they have a threesome before Patrick verbally abuses them with sadism. Later on, Patrick asks her to have sex with him again.
Patrick Bateman: I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.
It's made clear there is no "top" to Bateman. There is only becoming more successful than the previous day. Therefore, Bateman would be a Sigma in that regard. In American Psycho's first act, Bateman makes it known to his fiancée that he wishes to conform to society as best he can, unlike his other roles.
While it's true that Patrick is experiencing delusions and hallucinations, it doesn't mean that the murders are in his head. Turner blames the muddiness of the ending on the dichotomy between the fantasy world that Bateman is currently living in and the reality of the murderous situation at hand.
Sean Bateman, the character played by James Van Der Beek, is the younger brother of the infamous Patrick Bateman, the main character of American Psycho (2000), a film also based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
He displays a high functioning form of Asperger's syndrome, yet there are still symptoms present in Bateman of which even the highest functioning people with Asperger's syndrome cannot rid themselves. One of the key symptoms in Asperger's syndrome is the need for strict routine.
Upon arriving in London, Joe develops such an obsession with Rhys after reading his autobiography, A Good Man in a Cruel World, which Joe closely identifies with. Then the hallucinations start. “He's really desperate to see himself as a good person,” says Gamble.
Like Lady Phoebe's (Tilly Keeper) stalker, Joe has been suffering from erotomania, which is characterized by the delusion that one is the object of another person's desire. He imagined his entire passionate (if antagonistic) relationship with Rhys, a man he actually barely knows.
However, it's soon revealed that Joe never actually knew Rhys, and the version of Rhys who he was talking to, who was cunning and seemingly murderous, was actually a figment of Joe's imagination.
In the sixth season finale, Patrick realized his true feelings to Lisbon and revealed that he loved her. Lisbon then went on to commit in a romantic relationship. They later married in the series finale "White Orchids," where Lisbon reveals that she is in the early stages of her pregnancy with their child.
"That's No Lady" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 4. In this episode, Patrick disguises himself as a woman to avoid getting kicked out of town.
Patrick claimed he and Thaís weren't officially dating, and denied getting physical with the other girl. Still, they got married in the finale, and during the Tell-All, Thaís revealed she and Patrick were expecting their first child, a shock to Patrick,...
