A Confederacy of Dunces is written from the perspective of a teenager of average intelligence in the third person omniscient. The author does a respectable job writing with such visual and arousing words and phrases so that the readers can better appreciate what the narrator has to reveal. He does this well, writing of the protagonist whom he describes as harsh and critical of society and the way it works. He maintains and expresses his …showed first 75 words of 422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 422 total…Horse and Spanish John and Little Isadore pay no attention whatever to local sentiment and go on and snatch on a pretty fair scale, and by and by I am hearing rumors of some very nice scores." (97). His stream-of-consciousness writing along with his telling of monotonous facts should make for a rather uninteresting novel but with a rather unmatched style.<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>