A Confederacy of Dunces Summary A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a story about a man named Ignatius Reilly. He is a 30-year old man still living with his mother Irene who still treats him like his precious little baby. Ignatius is a lazy fat man with a college education who eats cakes and donuts all day. The story starts off with the author describing the setting and Ignatius. He is in …showed first 75 words of 659 total…

…showed last 75 words of 659 total…only normal character in this whole novel is the African American man named Jones. He gets a job as the cleanup person at the strip club/bar only because he needs to be off the streets or he will be arrested. He is the only one who actually sees the world for what it is through all of his cigarette smoking. The story has no real ending or closure to it, which makes it interesting.