Chapter Summaries 6: Killing Dog, Shopping, Christmas Party, Nell's, Paul Owen

Bateman's senseless need for violence continues when he travels to the park on a cold and windy night. He has a suitcase with two knives and a gun inside, and fully intends to use them, he just doesn't know who will be on the recieving end. He finally decides on an old man and his dog. After he slices and shoots them, we learn that the only time Bateman feels any real thrill or passion is when he's killing, which is another reason why he does it so much. In the next chapter, he goes shopping and has a severe panic attack at the mall, which seem to be occurring more frequently than before. Maybe his mental condition is worsening? In Christmas Party, he attends Evelyn's party reluctantly but ends up forcing her to leave so he can do drugs. I'm suprised Evelyn doesn't notice how much Patrick despises her. Or maybe she just doesn't care. Either way it's very strange. In Nell's, Patrick has dinner at Nell's with a few friends and a few models, one of whom he takes back to his apartment to have sex with. Nothing new, essentially. But then Patrick did something he's never done before. He told the model she should leave before he ended up hurting her. He actually gave one of his potential victims a warning! He said he would hurt her because he says "I think I'm loosing control." This tells us two things. One is that he does have the mental capacity to stop. Two is that he recognizes that he has a problem, which is a lot more than most other insane people. In the final chapter of these summaries, he attends a not-so high end restaurant with Paul Owen, where Owen gets beligerantly drunk and doesn't answer any of Bateman's questions about the Fisher account. They go back to his apartment where he slices his head open with an ax and puts the dead body in his room in an abandon building uptown. He had paper laid out on the floor so Owen wouldn't stain it with his blood, which shows that he intended to kill Owen before the dinner even started. Why he killed the a man I thought he admired, I don't know. But I'm assuming this will be followed by much more killing shortly after.