There are several scenes in Less than Zero that contain almost the same dialogue/interactions between Patrick Bateman and characters in AP.

A few examples: When Clay/Patrick talk to their mothers with sparse dialogue.

The passage where Clay is leaving Blair's bedroom/Patrick is leaving Courtney's bedroom.

When Clay is having a thought sequence describing his vacation with Blair in Monterey, describing their daily activities and weird dissassocation with each other, also comparable when Patrick and Evelyn take a vacation to the Hamptons and he lists the dishes they cook, walks along the beach, etc.

Did Bret Easton Ellis self-plagiarize on purpose? Or is this a way to reference how both characters are similar in terms of their emptiness brought on by an apathetic, consumerist world?

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