A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole book review

The characters in the story have a depth and are well defined. Ignatius is a character concoction that will remain with me for long. He is both self righteous and naive at his core that makes me sympathetic although he is not portrayed to evoke such an emotion. He is a big fat man who depends on his mother and some menial jobs to survive him(due to his ideals) despite having quality education from college. What circumstances in life must have produced someone as idealistic and rebellious, selfish, self righteous as Ignatius is a wonder. Bad parenting is one word that comes to mind. His mother dotes on him endlessly with no personal life for herself until she has had enough with Ignatius. She gets into a car accident which sets off a series of events into action that are both hilarious and ordained(or so they seem). 

 I am going with a liberal 4 out of 5 for the plot and the screenplay. I would have liked immensely to have some background into the childhood and early lives of Ignatius and his mother which is but barely touched upon. 

It's a pity that the narrator took his life for being a failure as writer given that the book won a Pulitzer prize after his death!