Patrick Bateman (MBA Harvard Business School) is a fictional character, the anti-hero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its film adaptation. Here is a time-line of his life:
October 1, 1960 - October 23, 1962: Patrick Bateman is born.
1980: Bateman graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy.
1984: Bateman graduates from Harvard University.
1985: Bateman has a short discussion with his estranged brother Sean about his future.
1986: Bateman graduates from Harvard Business School.
1986-?: From the time of his graduation, through the end of American Psycho, Bateman works at Pierce & Pierce.
1996: Bateman shows up at Victor’s club in Glamorama with “strange stains” on his suit.
2000: Bateman enters therapy with a Dr. M. This appears in the American Psycho 2000 e-mails. In these emails, he is divorcing Jean, to whom he has been married for at least five years, and has a son. He has apparently started his own brokerage firm and seems to be even richer than he was in the original novel. His tastes are even more rarefied. His homicidal tendencies (or thoughts) seem to have cooled a little with the birth of his son, but have not disappeared completely.
2003: Ellis kills Patrick Bateman by writing an extraordinary account of the serial killer being trapped in a pier fire. See Lunar Park.
