... from his own personal experiences. American Psycho' deals explicitly with sex and violence, the main style of the novel is the satirisation of the American Dream, as twisted by the excesses of the 1980s. Patrick Bateman's (the somewhat twisted protagonist') habitat are the offices, restaurants and nightclubs of Upper East Side Manhattan. Yuppiedom is at its most intense, and Ellis makes this clear with his ... thoughts. In Fear And Loathing ' this is evident in the way he talks about the hitchhiker, whom they agree to pick up in the opening chapter of the novel: "Here's this poor Greek ...

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• Grade Level: High School