![]() ![]() Hyde, as well as Dante's Inferno, Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom, and Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. The novel's literary influences include nineteenth-century Gothic tales like The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, and The Strange Case of Dr. Patrick's philosophical and political outlook also strongly resembles that of Gordon Gekko, the antagonist of Stone's film, whose famous assertion, "Greed is good," reflects the ideological status quo of Reagan-era Wall Street. Ellis in fact borrows the name of Patrick's firm-Pierce & Pierce-from Wolfe's book. Like other works which critique and lampoon 1980s "yuppie" culture, such as Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities(1984) and Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), American Psycho endeavors to peel away the glittering surfaces of the late-1980s Wall Street boom in order to examine its seedy and amoral underbelly. ![]() ![]() The first-person narrator is a Wall Street investment banker named Patrick Bateman, who either is or imagines himself to be a prolific serial killer. American Psychois Bret Easton Ellis's third novel, released in 1991. ![]()
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