Here street names serve to set the scene – they add an element of realism, placing Bateman in the real Manhattan. The only sign of human life someone playing a saxophone on the corner of Duane Street… ignoring them I make a left on Broadway, heading down toward City Hall Park, ducking into an alleyway… I run out the end of the alley as fast as I can onto Church Street… and I barely avoid a collision with another cab on Franklin - is it? - and Greenwich… while running toward Wall Street. For example, from the police pursuit in the chapter ‘Chase, Manhattan’: The novel is written in the first person, and Bateman is very self-conscious of his environment: streets are called precisely by name, and he narrates his routes as he travels about the city.
The novel is set in Manhattan, New York City, over about three years in the mid-to-late 1980s. The story follows Patrick Bateman, a banker by day and a serial killer by night. The author’s use of space in the text is striking. Merican Psycho is a dark, satirical novel by Brett Easton Ellis, first published in 1991.
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