The Modern Grotesque Hero in John Kennedy Tooles, A Confederacy of Dun

The Modern Grotesque Hero in flush toilet Kennedy Tooles, A union of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole unleashes a compelling criticism of young society in the principal work he produced in his scam lifetime, A partnership of Dunces. Using masterfully crafted comedy, Toole actu whollyy strengthens his disparaging nonplus on the modern world. Boisterously and unabashedly opinionated, Ignatius Reilly, the principal character of this novel, colourise the narrative with a poignant humor that simultaneously evokes both laughter and pity from readers. Near the beginning of the story, his mothers financial difficulties suddenly force Ignatius to sidetrack the womb-like security of his bedroom and seek employment, making him abandon his project of pen a scathing description of the disaster course that history had been fetching for the past four centuries (Toole 41) on childish Big Chief tablets. The body process of the novel revolves around Ignatiuss experience in society as he bumbles fro m job to job with his ever-present sense of superiority. His outward slovenly show and the incongruity between his professed beliefs and his actions create in Ignatius the epitome of the modern wild hero. Walker Percy wrote Tooles greatest achievement is Ignatius Reilly, slob, intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof off, who should repulse the reader with his elephantine bloats, his thunderous contempt and one-man all out war against all of modern times... (Samway 345). Using the wondrous to further highlight the satirical conflict that man encounters with modern society, John Kennedy Toole, in A Confederacy of Dunces, foxily attacks the economic, religious, and social states of present day America.The use of such a grotesque principal cha... ...nre. Mississippi Quarterly 38.1 (1984-1985) 33-47.Miller, Keith D. The Conservative Vision of John Kennedy Toole. gathering of College Teachers of English Studies 48 (1993) 30-34.Nelson, William. The Comic Grotesque in Recent Fiction . Thalia-Studies in Literary Humor 5.2 (1982) 36-40.Palumbo, Carmine D. John Kennedy Toole and His Confederacy of Dunces. Louisiana Folklore miscellanea 10 (1995) 59-77.Patteson, Richard F. and Thomas Sauret. The Consolation of Illusion John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces. The Texas Review 4.1-2 (1983) 77-87.Ruppersburg, Hugh. The South and John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces. Studies in American Humor 5.2-3 (1986) 118-126.Samway, Patrick H., S.J. Walker Percy A Life. New York Farrar, 1997.Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. New York Grove, 1980.13