Patrick Bateman is no role model ... People read ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and decide to shoot the president.” Harron recognized that Bateman’s rising popularity is because of ...

People read ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and decide to shoot the president.” Harron understands that TikTok and memes have played a role in the idolization of Patrick Bateman because “there ...

He imagined a character, Patrick Bateman, who accepted these ideals to become the “perfect” Wall Street man at the expense of his humanity — to be the subject of his infamous novel ...