A Confederacy of Dunces | Characters
Ignatius is the only fully realized character in the novel, and he is one of the great literary creations of a generation, vividly and enduringly alive and various in the tradition of Shakespeare's Falstaff (probably an inspiration) or Chaucer's Wife of Bath — comic characters whose vices and ugliness become part of their charm. The many dunces, simpletons, numbskulls, and fools around Ignatius are totally one- dimensional "attitudes," at times a little too repetitious, but each representing a static comic trait. These characters include Lana Lee, who runs a bar and leads a pornography...
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