Meet the Cast
Ignatius J. Reilly
Ignatius J. Reilly is the giant, belching heart of A Confederacy of Dunces. The novel starts with his green hunting cap stuffed onto "the top of the fleshy balloon of his head" (1.1); it ends with...
Irene Reilly (Mrs. Reilly)
She's Got Things HardMrs. Irene Reilly, Ignatius's mother, often says that she has things hard. "'You treat me like garbage'" (1.278), she tells Ignatius, and he kind of does. He bullies her and ye...
Gus Levy (Mr. Levy)
Gus Levy, the owner of Levy Pants, doesn't seem like he's going to be a major character in the novel. But he sneaks up, and sneaks up… and by the end he's taking up as much space as anybody short...
Myrna Minkoff
Ignatius is a Catholic medievalist who rejects the modern world and all its degeneracy (or so he says, anyway). Myrna, on the other hand, chases every hipster happening and trend. She is obsessed w...
Angelo Mancuso
Angelo Mancuso is a police officer and an elaborate joke.The most obvious part of the joke is that Mancuso is just not very good at his job. The first thing he does is try to arrest Ignatius for ba...
Burma Jones
"'I'm workin' in modern slavery. If I quit, I get report for being vagran'" (6.17), says Burma Jones. And he's more or less correct; Lana Lee at the Night of Joy is able to get him to sweep her bar...
Minor Characters
GeorgeA kid who helps Lana Lee distribute her pornographic pictures in high schools. He's constantly worried about being arrested and then eventually does get arrested. The moment where George trie...