Bachelor Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of G ttingen, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho" as a symbol and personification of a particular kind of society that critics have called the postmodern era of late capitalism. Bret Easton Ellis portrays Patrick as an individual whose life focuses primarily...