Business Cards Symbol Timeline in American Psycho The timeline below shows where the symbol Business Cards appears in American Psycho. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Pastels ...Price attempts to schedule a time to play squash with Montgomery...
The American Psycho quotes below all refer to the symbol of The Devil and Hell. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). April Fools Quotes ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER ...
and what better way to do that than to to be caught holding the knife that killed the US Ambassador to the UN when that instiution was not yet immoral, irrelevant or fattening (to slightly misquote Irene Dunne on life's pleasures)
Early on in the book I interrogate the way American culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposedly fragile self. I also explore how this influences things like how we raise our children and think about and experience postpartum. I’ve always had a huge hunger to bust out of su...
Walter Thompson ad executive—inveighed against "the dangers of too much mother love" in his best-selling Psycho- logical Care of Infant and Child. The popular Parents magazine, launched in 1926 by George Hecht, a thirty-year-old bachelor, featured hec- toring columns by male ...
By the 1990s, the native goodness of ordinary American life is nowhere to be found in the American annals of fictional murder. InAmerican Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis creates a murderer so vile that it is impossible to feel compassion for him, even though he is obviously insane and his insanity...
So I got this notion the other day that it’s been a long time since I’ve reviewed the horrors and whattaya know, suddenly this week there is a new horror picture in the theaters,American Psycho. This is a gorey picture based on the hated killer yuppie novel by Bret Easton Ellis, ...
I like short, clever, pithy poems that reveal a truth about life. A poet’s job is to be a reporter and recorder and also to be a psycho-pomp, seer and mystic; a Pandora and a Cassandra and a spell creator and someone who can stir people deeply and even harm others. I have more...