Chapter Summaries 3: Dry Cleaners, Harry's, Deck Chairs, and Buissness Meeting

In Dry Cleaners, we've now learned that Bateman's killings are semi-regular, as he says he normally takes his blood-splattered apparel to the Chinese-run dry cleaners 20 blocks up from his house. The Chinese women infuriates Patrick when she can't seem to comprehend how he wants his blood stained sheets cleaned, and he runs into a lady named Victoria who wants to have drinks with him, to which he responds with a lie of why he cannot, and continues to his meeting to which he's already running late. In the next chapter, Harry's, he's eating with a few of his work friends and runs into Paul Owen. Paul Owen seems to be a re-occurring character that we don't know much about yet, except that he's fortunate enough to get ahold of the Fisher account. After he departs, the rest of the conversation is filled with incredibly sexist remarks about women which further develop the theme of Patrick thinking of people as nothing more than commodities. This conversation proves how little he feels women are worth, and how nothing below surface level matters to him at all. In the proceeding chapter, he, Courtney, and two Camden graduates by the names of Scott and Anne. Courtney is stoned on lithium and barely able to stay awake, and Patrick is only sitting through this dinner so he can later commit adultery by having sex with Courtney while Luis is away in Phoenix. He makes some extremely odd remarks that nobody seems to hear, which I discuss at more at length in my previous post titled Patrick's Analysis 3. The sex with Courtney later that night was very weird and sad, and displayed how surface-level their relationship really was. The next chapter showed that Patrick seems to be very impressed by Paul Owen, and maybe even has a slight obsession with him. He always comments on how good he looks and well he handles himself. It also reveals that Bateman is obsessed with Donald Trump, so much so, that he's willing to change his opinion solely because Trump has a different one. He's probably obsessed with Trump because of his large amount of wealth and his carefree attitude towards others. These chapters gave us a lot of insight towards Patrick, and tells us that we soon will actually read about him murdering someone in the present.