A Confederacy of Dunces

Ignatius thinks there is a Confederacy of Dunces determined to hinder his every move, when it reality, he is the biggest dunce of them all. He works at a jeans factory, which inspires the dunce cap to take shape in the negative space between the pant legs. This points to and injures his family jewels, which also fits the comedy of seeing how far his pretentiousness will take him.