![]() ![]() Now we have six, only they’re less sympathetic, and less funny. One Ethel Mirman in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was enough. They run the gamut from annoying to infuriating. ![]() How did people miss the rampant, creepily Freudian misogyny? Every woman is a relentless nag, constant scold, loud whiner, or castrating bitch. Perhaps being generous in thinking it a product of its time, I can forgo the grimly ignorant portrayal of homosexuals as fey, kinky, hedonistic deviants. Racism (don’t be fooled by Percy’s introduction, Jones is a minstrel)Īnd its homophobia. The detractors of A Confederacy of Dunces point to its uncomfortable Reilly about being quiet Miss Trixie nags Mrs. Reilly about her son Ignatius nags and whines about everything Miss Annie nags to Ignatius and Ms. (Non-spoiler examples: Lana nags Darlene about performance Jones nags Lana about wages Mrs. A majority of the dialogue here is just an infuriating onslaught of relentless nagging. Narratives wherein flat characters nag the shit out of each other in identical ways. A Confederacy of Dunces is a mostly-shitty pastiche of interweaving ![]()
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