<P> Bateman's mental state continues to deteriorate, and he begins to experience bizarre hallucinations such as seeing a Cheerio interviewed on a talk show, being stalked by an anthropomorphic park bench, and finding a bone in his Dove Bar . At the end of the story, Bateman confronts Carnes about the message he left on his machine, only to find the attorney amused at what he considers a hilarious joke . Mistaking Bateman for another colleague, Carnes claims that the Patrick Bateman he knows is too much of a coward to have committed such acts . In the dialogue - laden climax, Carnes stands up to a defiant Bateman and tells him his claim of having murdered Owen is impossible, because he had dinner in London with him a few days before, not once but twice . </P> <P> The book ends as it began, with Bateman and his colleagues at a new club on a Friday night, engaging in banal conversation . The sign seen at the end of the book simply reads "This is not an exit ." </P> <P> According to literary critic Jeffrey W. Hunter, American Psycho is largely a critique of the "shallow and vicious aspects of capitalism ." The characters are predominantly concerned with material gain and superficial appearances, traits indicative of a postmodern world in which the' surface' reigns supreme . This leads Patrick Bateman to act as if "everything is a commodity, including people," an attitude that is further evident in the rampant objectification and brutalization of women that occurs in the novel . This distancing allows Bateman to rationalize his actions, in one anthropophagic scene, Bateman remarks "though it does sporadically penetrate how unacceptable some of what I'm doing actually is, I just remind myself that this thing, this girl, this meat, is nothing ..." </P> <P> Patrick Bateman's consumption of what he views as nothing more than a piece of meat is an almost parodically literal interpretation of a monster created by consumer culture . This, combined with sex, violence, drugs, and other desires of the id, is how Bateman enacts his sociopathic violence in a superficial world . </P>

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