The Rules of Attraction

• what does the title refer to?

personal attraction or selling your image maybe?

General info

Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties

• regarded as transgressive

Plot

#Sean bateman, #Lauren Hynde and #Paul Denton — who are entangled in a complex love triangle

The narrative is non-linear and is told from multiple first-person perspectives, often contradicting each other.

Characters

Sean bateman

de facto main character

Sean is a drug dealer and the younger brother of Patrick Bateman from Ellis's later novel "American Psycho."

Lauren Hynde

Lauren is a promiscuous student pining for her boyfriend Victor, who is traveling in Europe.

Paul Denton

Paul is a bisexual student who has feelings for Sean,

• didn't fuck young girl
• "Junkies are pathetic enough but rich junkies are even worse. Even worse than girls."

Place of action

Camden College, which is based on Bennington College,^[1] where Ellis studied