Lunar Park - Characters

Characters

Several of the characters are fictionalized portrayals of real people. Most notable among these is Ellis himself, but others include friend and fellow author Jay McInerney and Ellis' late father.

• Bret Easton Ellis - Novelist who rose to fame while still at college with his debut novel Less Than Zero; now lives in the suburbs with old flame Jayne Dennis. Considerable differences between this Ellis and the author himself, albeit crucial similarities within. The fictional Bret attended Camden College, the fictional liberal arts college which recurs in his novels.
• Jayne Dennis - Fictional film star, married to Bret Easton Ellis. Said to have dated many men, including Q-Tip and Keanu Reeves amongst others. As part of the marketing campaign a website was created, www.jaynedennis.com, consisting of obviously doctored images and a fictional filmography. Some of the pictures of Dennis on the stills page are of actress Cynthia Gibb. It is noted in a disclaimer on the stills page that the site is a work of fiction.
• Robby - Bret and Jayne's eleven-year-old son.
• Sarah - Jayne's six-year-old daughter and Bret's stepdaughter.
• Robert Ellis - Bret's father, deceased.
• Patrick Bateman - Serial killer from American Psycho. Rumored to be responsible for murders in the local suburbia.
• Donald Kimball - Detective from American Psycho. Questions Ellis about the aforementioned Bateman-inspired murders. Kimball appears to be an example of Bret's fictional world crossing over with his "real" world, one which Bret does not pick up on. Later, Bret discovers the name to be an alias.
• Mitchell Allen - Mitchell Allen is Bret's neighbour, and is a minor character from The Rules of Attraction. Bret remembers going to college with him at Camden, and even remembers details of Mitchell's alleged affair with fictional character Paul Denton. The narrator doesn't seem aware of this crossover between fiction and reality. The author has commented that he is "not quite sure how ended up on Elsinore Lane or why I put him there" but also adds that "maybe I found Mitchell Allen pretty amusing in The Rules of Attraction and as a private joke that would only mean something to me decided to place him next door to the narrator of Lunar Park." Introducing the character allowed Ellis to "riff on Camden College... and men of a certain age."
• Clayton - College student who Bret notices strikingly resembles Patrick Bateman, a young Bret, and in name resembles Clay from Less Than Zero.
• Aimee Light - A graduate student writing her thesis on Bret.
• Jay McInerney - Easton's contemporary and friend; author of Bright Lights, Big City