Jones discusses the limited job opportunities available to African Americans in the city.

He occasional receives mailed threats signed “ZORRO.” Talc, their professor, is still haunted by the memory of Ignatius and Myrna. Later that night, Ignatius plots a mass uprising among the factory workers at Levy Pants and recalls how he and Myrna met as troublesome university students. Ignatius is unhappy that his mother is going bowling with Santa and Mancuso. Mancuso reflects on the three women who attacked him he has been sent to the bus station restrooms in various costumes as punishment. Ignatius decorates a cross for the office while a perpetually confused Trixie watches. George collects packages from Lana, who tells him to come later to avoid Jones. Reilly arrives home, he sneaks down and watches her dance in the kitchen with her friends.Īt the Night of Joy, Darlene dreams of being a dancer. When Ignatius arrives home, he begins a new writing project. Levy recalls his trip to the office while his wife listens. Reilly notices Ignatius’s absence and plans to go bowling with Santa and Mancuso. Lana blames Jones for the recent wave of plainclothes policemen at the bar. Levy, the owner of Levy Pants, sparks his interest, and when the owner is gone, Ignatius hopes to impress the man by writing a stinging letter to a client. In lieu of his filing work, Ignatius decorates the office. He reads a letter from Myrna Minkoff, his ex-girlfriend. Ignatius begins to write about his ambitions for Levy Pants and then fights with his mother when he learns she plans to go bowling with Mancuso and his aunt, Santa Battaglia. While sweeping the bar, Jones witnesses Lana conducting business with an orphan street kid named George. Gonzalez, a longtime employee at Levy Pants, hires Ignatius after being impressed by his energy in comparison to the elderly Trixie. Keen to impress his sergeant, Mancuso has begun investigating the Night of Joy. Ignatius struggles to find a job and rages at his mother for befriending the policeman, Mancuso. At the cinema that evening, Ignatius makes so much noise that the manager has to intervene. Reilly tells Ignatius that he must find a job. The collapsed balcony is a costly affair and, after some disagreement, Mrs. Jones takes a severely underpaying job at the Night of Joy, where Lana is still complaining about Ignatius and his mother. On the way home, they crash their car and collapse a balcony.Īt home, Ignatius writes his book, pausing only to belch and masturbate. At the bar, Ignatius and his mother are thrown out by Lana, the owner. Robichaux meets an African American man named Burma Jones at the police station while the sergeant criticizes Mancuso for making a scene. On the way home, they stop by the Night of Joy and order drinks.

While waiting for his mother, Ignatius is almost arrested by a police officer named Mancuso, who takes away an old man named Robichaux instead amid a chaotic scene.

A confederacy of dunces