80s Quote by Jay McInerney
“I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.”
About This Quote
The novel captures 1980s New York culture, offering a vivid, controversial portrait of its era.
In simple terms: Novel reflects 80s NYC.
Key Takeaway
Consider its cultural context.
Themes
literature
culture
urban life
controversy
Mood
reflective
critical
Type
literary
analytical
When to use this quote
- studying 80s media
- discussing literary influence
- examining urban change
- analyzing moral ambiguity
Key Concepts
postmodernism
social critique
identity
Questions to Reflect On
- How does the setting shape the characters?
- What moral questions does it raise?
A Different Perspective
Its glorification of excess can be unsettling.
![“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.” quote by Andrew Motion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d8/andrew-motion-12897_bad-reviews_american-psycho-is-throughout-numbingly_1501285.jpg)
![“It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.” quote by Kiki Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f7/kiki-smith-10643_80s_it-was-a-very-economically-depressed-tim_26978.jpg)
