the consolation of philosophy sparknotes book 1

How will he impress her? With gifts? Flowers? By remaining gainfully employed? No, he decides to impress her by leading the black factory workers in revolt against office manager Mr. Levy, the owner of the company, and then he decides he will impress his ex-girlfriend, hippie Jewish leftist Myrna Minkoff, who is now living in New York. He writes an extremely abusive letter to a retailer under the signature of Mr. Instead of filing, though, he causes trouble. Almost despite himself, he gets a job filing at Levy Pants. He is outraged at the very suggestion.īut eventually his mother browbeats him out the door and into the mean streets. Reilly-encouraged by her new friend, Officer Mancuso's aunt Santa-tells Ignatius he has to get a job. Reilly pay back the damages in installments. A sheepish Officer Mancuso finds the wreck and helps Mrs. Reilly drinks too much, and as a result, she crashes her car into a building. Meanwhile, Ignatius and his mother escape into a strip club/bar called the Night of Joy, where they chat with the stripper Darlene and are abused by the proprietor, Lana Lee. Mancuso's sergeant tells him he is an idiot and orders him to dress up in ridiculous costumes and wander around the city until he catches an actual perpetrator. Reilly arrives, the crowd turns on Mancuso, and Claude Robichaux, an old man, is arrested. A policeman, Officer Angelo Mancuso, threatens to arrest him as a suspicious character. Ignatius Reilly, an extremely large, slothful, and cranky fellow wearing a hat with flaps over his ears, is waiting outside the D.H. So have patience… and watch out for toppling medievalists. Following it is like unraveling a giant ball of yarn wrapped around a very fat man with a moustache and a funny hat who keeps falling over. The plot of A Confederacy of Dunces is a knotted, tangled, ridiculous thing.

The consolation of philosophy sparknotes book 1