Reilly owes more than a thousand dollars for the damage. Reilly to crash into the side of a building, bringing a balcony crashing down on the car.Īs a result of the car accident, Mrs. A wet spot in the road (combined with the distraction caused by Ignatius's incessant complaints from the back seat) causes Mrs. Having been thrown out of the Night of Joy by its tyrannical proprietress, Lana Lee, Ignatius and his mother return to their Plymouth. When the police sergeant learns that Patrolman Mancuso has arrested a grandfather and was trying to apprehend Ignatius (a boy simply waiting for his mother), the sergeant punishes the inept officer: he must wear a new, ridiculous costume each day. This man is Burma Jones, and he has been falsely accused of stealing cashew nuts. Meanwhile, at the police precinct, Claude Robichaux (the old man who helped Ignatius) has been placed on a bench with a young, black man wearing space-age sunglasses. Reilly throws back drink after drink, while Ignatius tells the tale of his awful trip to Baton Rouge (the only time he has left New Orleans). Fleeing the scene, Ignatius and his mother head to Bourbon Street and stop off in the Night of Joy, a bar and strip club, where they receive terrible service. Ignatius is able to avoid being taken into custody, but as people help him, a kind grandfather who stood up for him is taken to jail. His troubles (or fateful fortunes) begin in New Orleans when an inept patrolman suspects him of being a pervert and attempts an arrest.

He views materialistic comforts as 'offenses against taste and decency,' things that demonstrate a lack of 'theology and geometry.'

Ignatius is a behemoth of fat and flatulence, with a gargantuan frame, bushy black moustache, green hunting cap, and blue and yellow eyes that look down on the modern era-and particularly on anything commerical. A Confederacy of Dunces presents the misadventures of Ignatius J.

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