In "A Confederacy of Dunces" John Kennedy Toole creates an
outrageous character in Ignatius J. Reilly. Everything about
Ignatius is the opposite to most behaviors and represents the
antithesis of all popular value systems. Through Ignatius, Toole
criticizes capitalism in the Levy Pants factory that Ignatius
works, the institute of law and the morally bankrupt people who
live in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Certainly a Mardi Gras
in print, the reader is treated to the hilarious perspective and
outrageous comments of a modern day knave in Ignatius J. Reilly.