A Confederacy Of Dunces

Toole Kennedy, John.A Confederacy of DUNCES. New York; Grove Press, 1980

Comedic Fiction

394 pgs

The central conflict of the book Confederacy of Dunces is that the main character, Ignatius Reilly has a totally different sense of reality then everyone else does and frequently struggles with this the entire book. Clinically, he is totally insane, in every aspect. But to him, everyone else is totally insane. He criticizes and makes fun of everything including god, sex and drugs He eventually is tried to be put in a mental instiution but flees from everyone with his former girlfriend to a better place without the "alleged" insane people. Therefore conquering his problem