Ignatius is extremely conservative and judgmental of others, and he hates progressive politics. However, this rejection of sexuality seems to be a reflection of Ignatius’s own repressed sexual deviancy, not a genuine conviction. He engages in a love/hate relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff, whom he views as obsessed with sex and morally corrupt. Ignatius also feels that modern society is hypersexualized and hates promiscuous women. Ignatius despises the trappings of capitalism and modern society and hates contemporary popular culture, yet he is obsessed with movies and television, which he loves to hate, and attends the cinema regularly. Clyde’s hot dog stand business but spends most of his shift eating the food himself. Levy’s textile factory (at the desperate pleas of Irene), and there he shirks his duties and sabotages the business. Despite his academic success, Ignatius is extremely lazy and greedy he still lives at home with his mother in New Orleans and refuses to get a job. Ignatius is convinced that culture and society have been in decline ever since. Ignatius is well-educated, specializing in the medieval period during his university studies, an era which he believes was the high point of Western civilization. He is a 30-year-old self-styled philosopher and social commentator. Reilly is the son of Irene Reilly and Mr.
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