American Psycho: Girls Summary & Analysis

Bateman is out to dinner with Courtney, who’s wasted again. She’s talking to him but he isn’t paying much attention. When the dinner ends, Bateman pays with his platinum American Express card and the two hop in a limousine and head to meet others at Nell’s for drinks. Before they get there, Bateman tells Courtney he’s going to drop her off so he can go score some drugs. After some arguing – she doesn’t know why he has to go elsewhere or who he’s going to get drugs from – Bateman drops her off and tells the driver to head down to the meat-packing district.

Bateman spots an attractive young girl walking the street and instructs the driver to pull alongside her. He details her clothing and her very attractive body, imagining that she could just be another NYU girl walking home from a night out. Bateman finally talks to her, inviting her to his apartment. She says she isn’t supposed to, but after he gives her some money, she agrees. He’s told her that he doesn’t want to know her name and is just going to call her “Christie.”

Back at Bateman’s apartment, “Christie” takes a bath while Bateman calls to order a second prostitute – a blonde. While they wait, he gives “Christie” wine and instructs her to bend over in the bath so he can clean her vagina. He carefully does so, playing with and arousing her. They’re interrupted by the arrival of the second girl, Sabrina, who isn’t blonde. Bateman brings the two women into the living room, the “Les Misérables” album playing, and asks them if they want to know what he does for a living. They don’t. He offers the girls truffles and expensive chardonnay, which they aren’t quick to drink, and keeps trying to make small talk between the three of them, asking if they’ve been abroad or if they went to college.

The three of them end up on the couch, beginning to have sex. Bateman orders “Christie” and Sabrina around, instructing them to go down on each other and stimulate one another to climax. He then instructs them to begin paying attention to him, and they do so, as he moves them around on his body however he likes. This scene goes on for quite a while, with Bateman describing in very intimate detail the activities and multiple climaxes of their sex. A while later, he awakens, with one girl on each side of him. He smokes a cigar and tells them to be careful of his watch before telling them they’re “not through yet…” Bateman then jumps the reader ahead, describing only how the girls will later leave his apartment, battered and bruised, “sobbing, bleeding, but well paid.”