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First of all, what is the significance of The Patty Winters Show. I've heard one person's theory that it was meant to act as a litmus test Bateman's sanity; that when the topic of the show was just completely absurd it could indicate that Bateman was hallucinating.
On today’s episode of the Patty Winters Show, American Psycho (2000) celebrates two decades of delightful decadence.
- Steven Thrash
Get everything you need to know about “The Patty Winters Show” in American Psycho. Analysis, related quotes, timeline.
- Brand Names and Dollar Signs
- Mistaken Identities
- The Patty Winters Show
- Blood
- References to Les Mis
Throughout the novel, Bateman describes in exhaustive detail the clothing, accessories, electronics, fancy bottled water, personal grooming products, and small appliances he uses and encounters in his everyday life. His descriptions include brand names and often the price and advertisable qualities of each product. At times his descriptions read as...
Everywhere Bateman and his friends go, they encounter people who look like other people they know. Characters seen across a crowded restaurant are described in terms of who they look like: 1. "some Wall Street guy who looks like Boris Cunningham" 2. "one couple ... who look like Sam and Ilene Sanford" 3. "someone who looks a lot like Trent Moore, o...
The Patty Winters Show is a regular feature of Bateman's day and plays a prominent role in the novel. The show is a fictional daytime talk show similar to shows of the 1980s and 1990s, such as The Jerry Springer Show (debuted 1991) or Geraldo (1987–98). Such shows relied on shocking or outrageous topics to draw an audience. In the novel, The Patty ...
The first line of the novel describes words written in blood-red paint, evoking a mood of fear and suspense. As the novel continues, blood and substances that look like blood, such as red paint, salsa, soy sauce, and red lighting, are prominent. This motif is uncomplicated, pointing to the violence Bateman engages in and the copious amounts of bloo...
Allusions to the musical Les Misérables pepper the novel. Everywhere there are playbills, flyers, advertisements, and other references to this popular musical. The references firmly anchor the novel in the era, as the musical premiered in Paris in 1980 and in the United States in 1986, where it became one of the most popular and long-running musica...
“The Patty Winters Show” is a fictional daytime talk show not unlike the real-life shows of Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Greg Geraldo, which were very popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s…
The Patty Winters Show this morning was about women who married homosexuals and I almost called Courtney up to warn her-as a joke-but then decided against it, deriving a certain amount of satisfaction from imagining Luis Carruthers proposing to her, Courtney shyly accepting, their nightmarish honey-moon.
